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# languages

The languages that the contextual embedding supports.

```
var languages: [NLLanguage] { get }
```

## Discussion

Starting in iOS 17 and macOS 14, the framework supports 27 languages across three models:

- Latin — including Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian,
  Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish, and
  Vietnamese
- Cyrillic — including Bulgarian, Kazakh, Russian, and Ukrainian
- Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

In iOS 18 and macOS 15, the framework expands language support to include three additional models:

- Arabic
- Indic — including Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu
- Thai

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