Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2
Amazon Lex V2 supports a variety of languages and locales. This topic lists the languages that are supported and the features that support these languages.
Supported languages and locales
Amazon Lex V2 supports the following languages and locales.
| Code | Language and locale |
|---|---|
| af_ZA* | Afrikaans (South Africa) |
| ar_AE | Gulf Arabic (United Arab Emirates) |
| ar_SA* | Arabic (Saudi Arabia) |
| bg_BG* | Bulgarian (Bulgaria) |
| ca_ES | Catalan (Spain) |
| cs_CZ* | Czech (Czech Republic) |
| cy_GB* | Welsh (United Kingdom) |
| da_DK* | Danish (Denmark) |
| de_AT | German (Austria) |
| de_CH* | German (Switzerland) |
| de_DE | German (Germany) |
| en_AB* | English (Scotland) |
| en_AU | English (Australia) |
| en_GB | English (UK) |
| en_IE* | English (Ireland) |
| en_IN | English (India) |
| en_NZ* | English (New Zealand) |
| en_US | English (US) |
| en_WL* | English (Wales) |
| en_ZA | English (South Africa) |
| es_419 | Spanish (Latin America) |
| es_ES | Spanish (Spain) |
| es_MX* | Spanish (Mexico) |
| es_US | Spanish (US) |
| et_ET* | Estonian (Estonia) |
| fa_IR* | Farsi (Iran) |
| fi_FI | Finnish (Finland) |
| fr_BE* | French (Belgium) |
| fr_CA | French (Canada) |
| fr_FR | French (France) |
| he_IL* | Hebrew (Israel) |
| hi_IN | Hindi (India) |
| hr_HR* | Croatian (Croatia) |
| hu_HU* | Hungarian (Hungary) |
| id_ID* | Indonesian (Indonesia) |
| is_IS* | Icelandic (Iceland) |
| it_IT | Italian (Italy) |
| ja_JP | Japanese (Japan) |
| km_KH* | Khmer (Cambodia) |
| ko_KR | Korean (Korea) |
| lt_LT* | Lithuanian (Lithuania) |
| lv_LV* | Latvian (Latvia) |
| ms_MY* | Malay (Malaysia) |
| nl_BE* | Dutch (Belgium) |
| nl_NL | Dutch (The Netherlands) |
| no_NO | Norwegian (Norway) |
| pl_PL | Polish (Poland) |
| pt_BR | Portuguese (Brazil) |
| pt_PT | Portuguese (Portugal) |
| ro_RO* | Romanian (Romania) |
| ru_RU* | Russian (Russia) |
| sk_SK* | Slovak (Slovakia) |
| sl_SI* | Slovenian (Slovenia) |
| so_SO* | Somali (Somalia) |
| sr_RS* | Serbian (Serbia) |
| su_ID* | Sundanese (Indonesia) |
| sv_SE | Swedish (Sweden) |
| th_TH* | Thai (Thailand) |
| tl_PH* | Tagalog/Filipino (Philippines) |
| tr_TR* | Turkish (Turkey) |
| uk_UA* | Ukrainian (Ukraine) |
| vi_VN* | Vietnamese (Vietnam) |
| zh_CN | Mandarin (PRC) |
| zh_HK | Cantonese (Hong Kong) |
| zu_ZA* | Zulu (South Africa) |
Locales with limited feature support
Locales marked with an asterisk (*) have limited feature support via generative AI and third-party Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Text-To-Speech (TTS). See the following table for a complete list of supported features.
Generative AI feature support
Generative AI feature support includes Assisted NLU in Primary Mode, Assisted Slot Resolution, and Intent Disambiguation.
Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2 features
The following table lists Amazon Lex V2 features that are limited to certain languages and locales. All other Amazon Lex V2 features are supported in all languages and locales.
| Feature | Supported languages and locales |
|---|---|
| AMAZON.AlphaNumeric | All languages and locales except Korean (ko_KR) and limited feature support locales |
| AMAZON.KendraSearchIntent | English (US) (en_US) |
| Improving speech recognition with a custom vocabulary | English (UK) (en_GB) English (US) (en_US) |
| Automated Chatbot Designer | English (US) (en_US) |
| Region availability | The following languages and locales are not available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1) and Africa (Cape Town) (ap-south-1) Regions:
|
| Setting intent context for your Lex V2 bot | English (US) (en_US) |
| Grammar slot type | English (Australia) (en_AU) English (UK) (en_GB) English (US) (en_US) |
| Using multiple values in a slot | English (US) (en_US) |
| Improving recognition of slot values with runtime hints in the conversation | English (UK) (en_GB) English (US) (en_US) |
| Capturing slot values with spelling styles during the conversation | English (Australia) (en_AU) English (UK) (en_GB) English (US) (en_US) |
| Using confidence scores to improve conversation accuracy | English (UK) (en_GB) English (US) (en_US) |
| Only with Third-party ASR (Deepgram) | Dutch (Belgium) (nl_BE) French (Belgium) (fr_BE) |
| Only with Third-party TTS (ElevenLabs) | Afrikaans (South Africa) (af_ZA) Bulgarian (Bulgaria) (bg_BG) Croatian (Croatia) (hr_HR) English (Scotland) (en_AB) Estonian (Estonia) (et_ET) Farsi (Iran) (fa_IR) Hebrew (Israel) (he_IL) Hungarian (Hungary) (hu_HU) Indonesian (Indonesia) (id_ID) Latvian (Latvia) (lv_LV) Lithuanian (Lithuania) (lt_LT) Malay (Malaysia) (ms_MY) Serbian (Serbia) (sr_RS) Slovak (Slovakia) (sk_SK) Slovenian (Slovenia) (sl_SI) |
Regions
For a list of AWS Regions where Amazon Lex V2 is available, see AWS regions and endpoints in the AWS General Reference.
