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# What source languages can I use?

## SyncWords allows users to translate to over 160 languages.

Last Updated 8/7/26

All languages listed are available for transcription as the source language.

Afrikaans  
Albanian  
Arabic  
Assamese  
Azerbaijani  
Bashkir  
Basque  
Belarusian  
Bengali  
Bodo  
Bosnian  
Bulgarian  
Catalan  
Chinese (Mandarin Simplified)  
Chinese (Mandarin Traditional)  
Chinese (Cantonese Traditional)  
Croatian  
Czech  
Danish  
Dogri  
Dutch  
English  
English (United States)  
English (Great Britain)  
English (Australia)  
English (New Zealand)  
English (India)  
Esperanto  
Estonian  
Filipino (Tagalog)  
Finnish  
French  
French (Canadian)  
Galician  
German  
German (Switzerland)  
Greek  
Gujarati  
Hebrew  
Hindi  
Hungarian  
Indonesian  
Irish  
Italian  
Japanese  
Kannada  
Kashmiri  
Kazakh  
Konkani  
Korean  
Latvian  
Lithuanian  
Macedonian  
Maithili  
Malay  
Malayalam  
Maltese  
Manipuri  
Marathi  
Mongolian  
Multlingual  
Nepali  
Norwegian  
Odia (Oriya)  
Persian  
Polish  
Portuguese  
Punjabi  
Romanian  
Russian  
Sanskrit  
Santali  
Serbian  
Sindhi  
Slovak  
Slovenian  
Spanish  
Spanish (United States)  
Spanish & English bilingual  
Swahili  
Swedish  
Tamil  
Telugu  
Thai  
Turkish  
Ukrainian  
Urdu  
Uyghur  
Vietnamese  
Welsh

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