Supported Languages

WhatsApp Cloud API message templates support the following official languages and language codes.

Language Code
Afrikaans af
Albanian sq
Arabic ar
Arabic (EGY) ar_EG
Arabic (UAE) ar_AE
Arabic (LBN) ar_LB
Arabic (MAR) ar_MA
Arabic (QAT) ar_QA
Azerbaijani az
Belarusian be_BY
Bengali bn
Bengali (IND) bn_IN
Bulgarian bg
Catalan ca
Chinese (CHN) zh_CN
Chinese (HKG) zh_HK
Chinese (TAI) zh_TW
Croatian hr
Czech cs
Danish da
Dari prs_AF
Dutch nl
Dutch (BEL) nl_BE
English en
English (UK) en_GB
English (US) en_US
English (UAE) en_AE
English (AUS) en_AU
English (CAN) en_CA
English (GHA) en_GH
English (IRL) en_IE
English (IND) en_IN
English (JAM) en_JAM
English (MYS) en_MY
English (NZL) en_NZ
English (QAT) en_QA
English (SGP) en_SG
English (UGA) en_UG
English (ZAF) en_ZA
Estonian et
Filipino fil
Finnish fi
French fr
French (BEL) fr_BE
French (CAN) fr_CA
French (CHE) fr_CH
French (CIV) fr_CI
French (MAR) fr_MA
Georgian ka
German de
German (AUT) de_AT
German (CHE) de_CH
Greek el
Gujarati gu
Hausa ha
Hebrew he
Hindi hi
Hungarian hu
Indonesian id
Irish ga
Italian it
Japanese ja
Kannada kn
Kazakh kk
Kinyarwanda rw_RW
Korean ko
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) ky_KG
Lao lo
Latvian lv
Lithuanian lt
Macedonian mk
Malay ms
Malayalam ml
Marathi mr
Norwegian nb
Pashto ps_AF
Persian fa
Polish pl
Portuguese (BR) pt_BR
Portuguese (POR) pt_PT
Punjabi pa
Romanian ro
Russian ru
Serbian sr
Sinhala si_LK
Slovak sk
Slovenian sl
Spanish es
Spanish (ARG) es_AR
Spanish (CHL) es_CL
Spanish (COL) es_CO
Spanish (CRI) es_CR
Spanish (DOM) es_DO
Spanish (ECU) es_EC
Spanish (HND) es_HN
Spanish (MEX) es_MX
Spanish (PAN) es_PA
Spanish (PER) es_PE
Spanish (SPA) es_ES
Spanish (URY) es_UY
Swahili sw
Swedish sv
Tamil ta
Telugu te
Thai th
Turkish tr
Ukrainian uk
Urdu ur
Uzbek uz
Vietnamese vi
Zulu zu

Usage in SMSPort

When creating templates in the Template Creator or adopting from the Standard Template Library, choose any supported language from the dropdown selector.

API Example

When creating or resolving templates via the SMSPort Public API:

{
  "name": "payment_reminder_v1",
  "language": "hi",
  "category": "UTILITY"
}