Languages in Qualtrics

About Languages in Qualtrics

Qualtrics is available in multiple languages. This support page has links to resources across the site on how you can select different languages in your Qualtrics account or projects. You will also find a list of the specific languages available to you.

Areas of the Product Where Language Can Be Set

As a user, you can navigate the Qualtrics platform, create dashboards and launch surveys in several languages. These are the areas of the product that are available in multiple languages. To learn more about how to enable these options or use these features, see the linked support pages.

In the next section, Language Availability, we’ll provide a list of the specific languages available in each part of the Qualtrics platform.

• Survey translation: These are languages you can launch your survey in. To add more languages to your survey, click on survey options and use the Survey Translation

  Qtip: There are three ways you can make a survey available in multiple languages:
  1) Qualtrics can help you translate your survey into any of the supported languages using our paid professional translation services. (See Language Availability.)
  2) Your organization can provide the translated version of the survey and upload it right inside Qualtrics.
  3) From right inside Qualtrics, you can automatically translate your survey using the free Google Translate API. Please note that, as with all machine-translated content, the translation obtained via the Google Translate API may not be fully correct or accurate.

  Qtip: For a list of the language codes we support, see the Translate Survey support page.

• Best practice methodology: Sets of questions prepared by teams of experts within Qualtrics that you can launch in multiple languages, and which follow best-practice methodology.
• Qualtrics account language: System-wide language available in all areas of the XM platform (from Admin, to Contacts, to Projects, to the homepage). This is the language you navigate your Qualtrics account in. See Account Settings for how to adjust this.
• CX / EX Dashboards: Languages that can be used in EX and CX Dashboards translations.
• 360 participant portal: Languages available in the 360 participant portal interface.
  Qtip: For translating the 360 survey itself, see Translate Survey (360).
• Tickets: Languages available in the Tickets page.
• Text iQ: Some languages are supported by Text iQ functionality, such as topics, sentiment analysis, or recommended topics. You can find details on language and functionality on Text iQ Functionality.
• Translate comments: The option to translate comments is available in all Google Translate API-supported languages. This can help you read and understand text written by respondents in different languages.
  Qtip: Open-text responses will always appear in the language in which they were submitted unless they are translated. This is true for all responses, even if the respondent submits a response in a language that isn’t supported by Qualtrics.

Language Availability

Qualtrics is available in multiple languages and the platform allows you to launch surveys and programs in several languages. Click on the items below to see which actions are supported in different languages:

Launching a survey in a specific language

You may want to give respondents the option to take your survey in a specific language. Qualtrics allows you to translate your survey or access paid professional translations to launch your survey in multiple languages. You can make a survey available in any of the following 78 languages:

• Albanian
• Arabic
• Armenian (Eastern)
• Assamese
• Azeri/Azerbaijani (Latin script)
• Bahasa Indonesia
• Bahasa Malaysia
• Belarusian
• Bengali
• Bosnian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• Cebuano
• Central Kurdish
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English (UK)
• English (US)
• Esperanto
• Estonian
• Farsi/Persian
• Finnish
• French
• French (Canada)
• Georgian
• German
• Greek
• Gujarati
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Ilonggo/Hiligaynon
• Italian
• Japanese
• Kannada
• Kazakh (Cyrillic)
• Khmer
• Korean
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Macedonian
• Malayalam
• Marathi
• Mongolian
• Montenegrin
• Myanmar/Burmese
• Nepali
• Norwegian
• Odia/Oriya
• Polish
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Punjabi
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Sinhalese
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Somali
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Tagalog
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Urdu
• Vietnamese
• Welsh

If the language you’d like to translate your survey into isn’t available, you can add it as a custom language.

Qtip: When translating a survey, you can also select a specific variety of a language. For example, if you want to provide a survey in Mexican Spanish, you can select Spanish (Latin America) as a base language and add a specific code for ES-MX. See Translate Survey for more details.

Qtip: For a list of the language codes we support, see the Translate Survey support page.

Launching pre-made best-practice surveys in multiple languages

Qualtrics allows you to create surveys and projects from scratch, but you can also use expert-made questions (certified questions) available in the Qualtrics Certified Library. You can leverage our certified questions in 13 different languages out of the box. These question sets are available in the following languages:

• English (US)
• English (UK)
• Japanese
• German
• French
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Korean
• Italian
• Dutch
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Chinese (Simplified)

Using the XM Platform in a specific language

The Qualtrics XM Platform is fully available and supported in 21 languages. Qualtrics users can navigate the entire platform in any of the following languages:

• English (US)
• English (UK)
• Japanese
• German
• French
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Korean
• Italian
• Dutch
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Thai
• Finnish
• Danish
• Swedish
• Russian
• Bahasa Indonesia
• Bahasa Malaysia

To set the platform to any of these languages, go to Account Settings and select the language.

When adjusting your account language, you may see other languages not listed here. These are languages that are only partially supported. This means that you can navigate some parts of the platform in that language, but certain elements of the interface will appear in English (US).

To see which areas of the product are supported in other languages, see the other dropdowns that follow (for example, ‘Navigating the 360 participant portal in a specific language’.)

Translating dashboards in a specific language

Attention: There are some labels in the dashboard that are not included in the translation file because they are hard-coded into the dashboard. This text cannot be translated at this time and will default to English.

You can make dashboard results accessible in multiple languages. The following languages are supported for dashboard translation (44 for labels, 60 for data):

	Labels	Data
Albanian	No	Yes
Arabic	No	Yes
Armenian (Eastern)	Yes	Yes (as language code HY instead of HYE)
Bahasa Indonesia	Yes	Yes
Bahasa Malaysia	Yes	Yes
Bengali	No	Yes
Bosnian	Yes	Yes
Brazilian Portuguese	Yes	Yes
Bulgarian	Yes	Yes
Catalan	No	Yes
Chinese (Simplified)	Yes	Yes
Chinese (Traditional)	Yes	Yes
Croatian	Yes	Yes
Czech	Yes	Yes
Danish	Yes	Yes
Dutch	Yes	Yes
English (UK)	Yes	Yes
English (US)	Yes	Yes
Estonian	Yes	Yes
Finnish	Yes	Yes
French	Yes	Yes
French (Canada)	Yes	Yes
German	Yes	Yes
Greek	Yes	Yes
Hebrew	No	Yes
Hindi	Yes	Yes
Hungarian	Yes	Yes
Italian	Yes	Yes
Japanese	Yes	Yes
Korean	Yes	Yes
Latvian	Yes	Yes
Lithuanian	Yes	Yes
Macedonian	Yes	Yes
Malayalam	No	Yes
Marathi	No	Yes
Myanmar / Bumese	No	Yes
Norwegian	Yes	Yes
Polish	Yes	Yes
Portuguese (Portugal)	Yes	Yes
Romanian	Yes	Yes
Russian	Yes	Yes
Serbian	Yes	Yes
Sinhalese	No	Yes
Slovak	Yes	Yes
Slovenian	Yes	Yes
Spanish (Latin America)	Yes	Yes
Spanish (Spain)	Yes	Yes
Swahili	No	Yes
Swedish	Yes	Yes
Tagalog	No	Yes
Tamil	No	Yes
Thai	Yes	Yes
Turkish	Yes	Yes
Ukrainian	Yes	Yes
Urdu	No	Yes
Vietnamese	Yes	Yes
Welsh	Yes	Yes

Read more about what counts as dashboard labels versus dashboard data (also called “filters,” in CX dashboards).

Navigating the 360 participant portal in a specific language

Employee-facing 360 feedback projects can be launched in multiple languages. While some parts of the 360 survey experience need to be translated (see Building Your 360 Survey for more information), employees can view their progress and actions on the participant portal in any of the following 46 languages:

• English (US)
• English (UK)
• Japanese
• German
• French
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Korean
• Italian
• Dutch
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Thai
• Finnish
• Danish
• Swedish
• Russian
• Bahasa Indonesia
• Bahasa Malaysia
• Czech
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Slovak
• Turkish
• Bulgarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Arabic
• Bosnian
• French (Canada)
• Hebrew
• Lithuanian
• Serbian
• Vietnamese
• Armenian (Eastern)
• Estonian
• Hindi
• Latvian
• Macedonian
• Norwegian
• Ukrainian
• Welsh

Translating 360 subject reports into a specific language

When you create subject reports in 360, you can translate those reports into 40 languages:

• English (US)
• French
• Spanish (Spain)
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Portuguese
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Italian
• German
• Dutch
• Japanese
• Korean
• Finnish
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Polish
• Turkish
• Czech
• Hungarian
• Greek
• Slovak
• Romanian
• Slovenian
• Bulgarian
• Croatian
• Thai
• English (UK)
• Arabic
• Bosnian
• French (Canada)
• Hebrew
• Lithuanian
• Serbian
• Vietnamese
• Bahasa Indonesian
• Ukrainian
• Danish
• Swedish
• Bahasa Malaysia
• Norwegian
• Russian (as language code RU-RU)

Following up on tickets in a specific language

The Tickets page allows you to manage tickets that have been assigned to you.

This functionality is available in the following 44 languages:

• English (US)
• English (UK)
• Japanese
• German
• French
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Korean
• Italian
• Dutch
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Thai
• Finnish
• Danish
• Swedish
• Russian
• Bahasa Indonesia
• Bahasa Malaysia
• Czech
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Slovak
• Turkish
• Bulgarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Bosnian
• French (Canada)
• Lithuanian
• Serbian
• Vietnamese
• Armenian (Eastern)
• Estonian
• Hindi
• Latvian
• Macedonian
• Norwegian
• Ukrainian
• Welsh

To find out more about how ticketing works, see Following Up on Tickets.

Translatable Content in Qualtrics

The following support pages dive deeper into the process of translating text within various areas of the Qualtrics platform.

• Translating a Survey: Read this page in full if you plan on using a survey in multiple languages. On this page you will learn about the methods available for translating your survey, how to specify which language each respondent sees, and how to analyze data for translated surveys.
• Translating a Reference Survey: This section discusses the specifics of translating reference surveys. Reference surveys allow you to use the same set of questions in multiple surveys via your library.
• Translating Comments: This page discusses how to translate comments after collecting open text survey responses.
• Translating Messages: This page shows how to translate template messages of any kind within the library. Messages can be used in many different places on the Qualtrics platform, including survey invites, end of survey elements, and email tasks.
• Translating Conjoints and MaxDiffs: This page walks through the process of translating these specific Product Experience (PX) projects. You may learn more about these projects by visiting the support pages for Conjoints and MaxDiffs.
• Translating Feedback Buttons and Response Dialogs: This page describes how to translate these types of creatives within Website/App Feedback.
• Translating Messages (360): This page outlines how to translate messages in 360 Projects in the Employee Experience (EX) product.
• Translating Messages (EX): This page talks about translating messages in the Employee Experience (EX) product.

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