Named Entity Recognition (NER) language support

Use this article to learn which natural languages are supported by the NER feature of Azure AI Language.

Note

  • You can additionally find the language support for the Preview API in the second tab.

NER language support

Language Language Code Notes
Afrikaans af
Albanian sq
Amharic am
Arabic ar
Armenian hy
Assamese as
Azerbaijani az
Basque eu
Bengali bn
Bosnian bs
Bulgarian bg
Burmese my
Catalan ca
Chinese (Simplified) zh-Hans zh also accepted
Chinese (Traditional) zh-Hant
Croatian hr
Czech cs
Danish da
Dutch nl
English en
Estonian et
Finnish fi
French fr
Galician gl
Georgian ka
German de
Greek el
Gujarati gu
Hebrew he
Hindi hi
Hungarian hu
Indonesian id
Irish ga
Italian it
Japanese ji
Kannada kn
Kazakh kk
Khmer km
Korean ko
Kurdish (Kurmanji) ku
Kyrgyz ky
Lao lo
Latvian lv
Lithuanian lt
Macedonian mk
Malagasy mg
Malay ms
Malayalam ml
Marathi mr
Mongolian mn
Nepali ne
Norwegian (Bokmal) no nb also accepted
Odia or
Pashto ps
Persian fa
Polish pl
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-BR
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT pt also accepted
Punjabi pa
Romanian ro
Russian ru
Serbian sr
Slovak sk
Slovenian sl
Somali so
Spanish es
Swahili sw
Swazi ss
Swedish sv
Tamil ta
Telugu te
Thai th
Turkish tr
Ukrainian uk
Urdu ur
Uyghur ug
Uzbek uz
Vietnamese vi
Welsh cy

Next steps

NER feature overview