Supported languages

Line 21 has extensive support for 119 unique languages.

We use UTF-8 encoding for all languages and a font family with excellent unicode coverage (Inter). This means that, technically, all languages are supported. However, the list of actually supported languages may be limited by availability of relevant services:

  • human captioning: not covering many languages
  • ASR engines: they tend to cover a lot of languages, but not all dialects or accents
  • translation engines: good coverage, but here you should check if the pair source / target is supported
  • RTMP encoding: the most limited subset of languages (see RTMP streaming)
  • HLS streaming: all covered
  • browser and overlay: all covered
  • text destinations: in general, all covered, but you should check with the platform's documentation for more details and definitely test before the event
CodeLanguageHuman CaptioningASRTranslation
AF
Afrikaans
No availability
SQ
Albanian
Limited
AM
Amharic
No availability
AR
Arabic
No availability
HY
Armenian
Limited
AS
Assamese
No availability
AZ
Azerbaijani
No availability
BA
Bashkir
Limited
EU
Basque
High
BE
Belarusian
No availability
BN
Bengali
Limited
BS
Bosnian
No availability
BR
Breton
No availability
BG
Bulgarian
No availability
CA
Catalan
High
CEB
Cebuano
Limited
ZH
ChineseChinese (Traditional)Cantonese (Traditional)
High
CO
Corsican
Limited
HR
Croatian
No availability
CS
Czech
No availability
DA
Danish
High
NL
Dutch
High
EN
EnglishEnglish (UK)English (US)
High
EO
Esperanto
No availability
ET
Estonian
Limited
FO
Faroese
No availability
FI
Finnish
No availability
FR
FrenchFrench (Canadian)
High
FY
Frisian
No availability
GL
Galician
No availability
KA
Georgian
No availability
DE
German
High
EL
Greek
No availability
GU
Gujarati
No availability
HT
Haitian Creole
Limited
HA
Hausa
No availability
HAW
Hawaiian
No availability
HE
Hebrew
Limited
HI
Hindi
Limited
HMN
Hmong
No availability
HU
Hungarian
Limited
IS
Icelandic
Limited
IG
Igbo
No availability
ID
Indonesian
No availability
GA
Irish
No availability
IT
Italian
High
JA
Japanese
High
JV
Javanese
No availability
KN
Kannada
No availability
KK
Kazakh
No availability
KM
Khmer
No availability
RW
Kinyarwanda
No availability
KO
Korean
High
KU
Kurdish
No availability
KY
Kyrgyz
No availability
LO
Lao
No availability
LA
Latin
No availability
LV
Latvian
Limited
LN
Lingala
No availability
LT
Lithuanian
Limited
LB
Luxembourgish
Limited
MK
Macedonian
No availability
MG
Malagasy
No availability
MS
Malay
No availability
ML
Malayalam
No availability
MT
Maltese
Limited
MI
Maori
No availability
MR
Marathi
No availability
MN
Mongolian
No availability
MY
Myanmar (Burmese)
No availability
NE
Nepali
No availability
NO
Norwegian
High
NY
Nyanja (Chichewa)
No availability
NN
Nynorsk
No availability
OC
Occitan
No availability
OR
Odia (Oriya)
No availability
PS
Pashto
No availability
FA
Persian
No availability
PL
Polish
High
PT
PortuguesePortuguese (Brazil)
High
PA
Punjabi
No availability
RO
Romanian
Limited
RU
Russian
High
SM
Samoan
No availability
SA
Sanskrit
No availability
GD
Scots Gaelic
Limited
SR
Serbian
Limited
ST
Sesotho
No availability
SN
Shona
No availability
SD
Sindhi
No availability
SI
Sinhala (Sinhalese)
No availability
SK
Slovak
Limited
SL
Slovenian
Limited
SO
Somali
No availability
ES
SpanishSpanish (Latin America)
High
SU
Sundanese
No availability
SW
Swahili
No availability
SV
Swedish
High
TL
Tagalog (Filipino)
No availability
TG
Tajik
No availability
TAQ
Tamasheq
No availability
TA
Tamil
No availability
TT
Tatar
No availability
TE
Telugu
No availability
TH
Thai
High
BO
Tibetan
No availability
TR
Turkish
High
TK
Turkmen
No availability
UK
Ukrainian
High
UR
Urdu
No availability
UG
Uyghur
No availability
UZ
Uzbek
No availability
VI
Vietnamese
High
CY
Welsh
High
WO
Wolof
No availability
XH
Xhosa
No availability
YI
Yiddish
No availability
YO
Yoruba
No availability
ZU
Zulu
No availability
Last updated: January 13, 2026 at 09:22 AM