Method: languages

Returns a list of supported languages for translation.

HTTP request

GET https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2/languages

The URL usesGoogle API HTTP annotation syntax.

Query parameters

Parameters
target

string

The target language code for the results. If specified, then the language names are returned in thename field of the response, localized in the target language. If you do not supply a target language, then thename field is omitted from the response and only the language codes are returned.

model

string

The supported languages for a particular translation model. For Cloud Translation - Basic, the value can benmt to return languages supported by the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model.

key

string

A valid API key to handle requests for this API. If you are using OAuth 2.0 service account credentials (recommended), do not supply this parameter.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{"data":{object(GetSupportedLanguagesResponseList)},}
Fields
data

object(GetSupportedLanguagesResponseList)

A list of supported language responses. This list will contain an entry for each language supported by the Translation API.

Authorization

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-translation
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see theAuth Guide.

GetSupportedLanguagesResponseList

A response list contains a list of separate supported language responses.

JSON representation
{"languages":[{object(GetSupportedLanguagesResponseLanguage)}],}
Fields
languages[]

array (GetSupportedLanguagesResponseLanguage)

The set of supported languages.

GetSupportedLanguagesResponseLanguage

A single supported language response corresponds to information related to one supported language.

JSON representation
{"language":string,"name":string,}
Fields
language

string

Supported language code, generally consisting of its ISO 639-1 identifier. (E.g. 'en', 'ja'). In certain cases, BCP-47 codes including language + region identifiers are returned (e.g. 'zh-TW' and 'zh-CH')

name

string

Human readable name of the language localized to the target language.

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