Messaging - Supported languages for WhatsApp templates
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Telesign supports the languages in the table below for use with the Messaging templates for WhatsApp. This is a subset of the WhatsApp list of languages published by Meta.
To use a Messaging template for WhatsApp, you will need to use the associated supported language code (an abbreviation that specifies the language) for the language of the text in your template. This is required for WhatsApp templates and not supported for other templates. For more information about Messaging templates, see the links below the language table. Contact our Customer Support Team for assistance with your WhatsApp template.
Set the language code in the language
field using this endpoint:
POST https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1/omnichannel/templates
NOTE:
If an language code other than a supported language code is used, status code
3817 Invalid value for parameter language: {language}
is returned.If a language not received in the request, status code
3110 Invalid request
is returned.
These Messaging template endpoints will return the language code for the language used in the language
field (see the HTTP 200 status):
GET https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1/omnichannel/templates
GET https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1/omnichannel/templates/{channel}/{name}
Supported languages
Language | Code |
---|---|
Afrikaans | af |
Albanian | sq |
Arabic | ar |
Azerbaijani | az |
Bengali | bn |
Bulgarian | bg |
Catalan | ca |
Chinese (China) | zh_CN |
Chinese (Hong Kong) | zh_HK |
Chinese (Taiwan) | zh_TW |
Croatian | hr |
Czech | cs |
Danish | da |
Dutch | nl |
English | en |
English (UK) | en_GB |
English (US) | en_US |
Estonian | et |
Filipino | fil |
Finnish | fi |
French | fr |
Georgian | ka |
German | de |
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 |
Persian | fa |
Polish | pl |
Portuguese (Brazil) | pt_BR |
Portuguese (Portugal) | pt_PT |
Punjabi | pa |
Romanian | ro |
Russian | ru |
Serbian | sr |
Slovak | sk |
Slovenian | sl |
Spanish | es |
Spanish (Argentina) | es_AR |
Spanish (Mexico) | es_MX |
Spanish (Spain) | es_ES |
Swahili | sw |
Swedish | sv |
Tamil | ta |
Telugu | te |
Thai | th |
Turkish | tr |
Ukrainian | uk |
Urdu | ur |
Uzbek | uz |
Vietnamese | vi |
Zulu | zu |
Messaging template reference pages
Updated about 20 hours ago