Vertex AI Search for retail and Recommendations both support the following world languages.
Recommendations
Most languages are supported. The model automatically detects the text language.
| Language Name | Script Name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Latin |
| Amharic | Ethiopic |
| Arabic | Arabic |
| Bulgarian | Cyrillic |
| Bulgarian | Latin |
| Bangla | Bangla |
| Bosnian | Latin |
| Catalan | Latin |
| Cebuano | Latin |
| Corsican | Latin |
| Czech | Latin |
| Welsh | Latin |
| Danish | Latin |
| German | Latin |
| Greek | Greek |
| Greek | Latin |
| English | Latin |
| Esperanto | Latin |
| Spanish | Latin |
| Estonian | Latin |
| Basque | Latin |
| Persian | Arabic |
| Finnish | Latin |
| Filipino | Latin |
| French | Latin |
| Western Frisian | Latin |
| Irish | Latin |
| Scottish Gaelic | Latin |
| Galician | Latin |
| Gujarati | Gujarati |
| Hausa | Latin |
| Hawaiian | Latin |
| Hindi | Devanagari |
| Hindi | Latin |
| Hmong | Latin |
| Croatian | Latin |
| Haitian Creole | Latin |
| Hungarian | Latin |
| Armenian | Armenian |
| Indonesian | Latin |
| Igbo | Latin |
| Icelandic | Latin |
| Italian | Latin |
| Hebrew | Hebrew |
| Japanese | Japanese |
| Japanese | Latin |
| Javanese | Latin |
| Georgian | Georgian |
| Kazakh | Cyrillic |
| Khmer | Khmer |
| Kannada | Kannada |
| Korean | Korean |
| Kurdish | Latin |
| Kyrgyz | Cyrillic |
| Latin | Latin |
| Luxembourgish | Latin |
| Lao | Lao |
| Lithuanian | Latin |
| Latvian | Latin |
| Malagasy | Latin |
| Maori | Latin |
| Macedonian | Cyrillic |
| Malayalam | Malayalam |
| Mongolian | Cyrillic |
| Marathi | Devanagari |
| Malay | Latin |
| Maltese | Latin |
| Burmese | Myanmar |
| Nepali | Devanagari |
| Dutch | Latin |
| Norwegian | Latin |
| Nyanja | Latin |
| Punjabi | Gurmukhi |
| Polish | Latin |
| Pashto | Arabic |
| Portuguese | Latin |
| Romanian | Latin |
| Russian | Cyrillic |
| Russian | English |
| Sindhi | Arabic |
| Sinhala | Sinhala |
| Slovak | Latin |
| Slovenian | Latin |
| Samoan | Latin |
| Shona | Latin |
| Somali | Latin |
| Albanian | Latin |
| Serbian | Cyrillic |
| Southern Sotho | Latin |
| Sundanese | Latin |
| Swedish | Latin |
| Swahili | Latin |
| Tamil | Tamil |
| Telugu | Telugu |
| Tajik | Cyrillic |
| Thai | Thai |
| Turkish | Latin |
| Ukrainian | Cyrillic |
| Urdu | Arabic |
| Uzbek | Latin |
| Vietnamese | Latin |
| Xhosa | Latin |
| Yiddish | Hebrew |
| Yoruba | Latin |
| Chinese | Han (including Simplified and Traditional) |
| Chinese | Latin |
| Zulu | Latin |
For a list of all languages that can be automatically detected, see the Compact Language Detector GitHub README.
Search for retail
| Supported languages | |
|---|---|
| Arabic | English |
| Bulgarian | Estonian |
| Catalan | Finnish |
| Chinese (simplified) | French |
| Chinese (traditional) | German |
| Croatian | Greek |
| Czech | Hebrew |
| Danish | Hungarian |
| Icelandic | Romanian |
| Italian | Russian |
| Japanese | Serbian |
| Korean | Slovak |
| Latvian | Slovenian |
| Lithuanian | Spanish |
| Norwegian | Swedish |
| Polish | Thai |
| Turkish |
You set the language when you upload your catalog for your Vertex AI Search for retail project. The catalog should be in one language only and search queries should be sent in the same language. Having multiple languages in the catalog degrades LLM performance.