Language

Languages is a feature that allows changing languages for people who prefer to play in a language other than their default setting. The language menu is accessible via a button in the options/settings menu below general.

Languages[]

Available Languages
Number		Name (transliteration)	Language	Locale Code	Official language	Added in
JE	BE	Name (transliteration)	Language	Locale Code	Official language	JE	BE
1	–	Afrikaans	Afrikaans (Suid-Afrika)	af_za	Namibia, South Africa	12w01a (1.1)	–
2	–	اللغة العربية (alLoğeẗ al'Arabiyeẗ)	Arabic	ar_sa	North Africa + Middle East	12w01a (1.1)	–
3	–	Asturianu	Asturian	ast_es	Asturias (Spanish Autonomous Community)	1.7.4	–
4	–	Azərbaycanca (Azərbaycan)	Azerbaijani	az_az	Azerbaijan, Dagestan	1.7.10	–
5	–	Башҡортса	Bashkir	ba_ru	Bashkortostan (Russia)	1.14.3-pre3 (1.14.3)	–
6	–	Boarisch	Bavarian	bar	Bavaria	18w48a (1.14)	–
7	–	Беларуская (Беларусь)	Belarusian	be_by	Belarus	1.9	–
8	23	Български (България)	Bulgarian	bg_bg	Bulgaria	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
9	–	Brezhoneg (Breizh)	Breton	br_fr	France (region)	1.9	–
10	–	Brabants	Brabantian	brb	Netherlands	1.13.1-pre1 (1.13.1)	–
11	–	Bosanski (Bosna i Hercegovina)	Bosnian	bs_ba	Bosnia and Herzegovina	18w16a (1.13)	–
12	–	Català (Catalunya)	Catalan	ca_es	*Spain (Catalonia)* & Andorra**	12w01a (1.1)	–
13	21	Čeština (Česká Republika)	Czech	cs_cz	Czech Republic	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
14	–	Cymraeg (Cymru)	Welsh	cy_gb	Wales	11w49a (1.1)	–
15	2	Dansk (Danmark)	Danish	da_dk	Denmark, Faroe Islands	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
16	–	Österreichisches Deitsch	Austrian German	de_at	Austria	1.10	–
17	–	Schwiizerdutsch	Swiss German	de_ch	Switzerland	18w15a (1.13)	–
18	3	Deutsch	German	de_de	Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belgium	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
19	22	Ελληνικά (Ελλάδα)	Greek	el_gr	Greece, Cyprus.	12w01a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
20	–	English (Australia)	Australian English	en_au	Australia	12w21b (1.3.1)	–
21	–	English (Canada)	Canadian English	en_ca	Canada	11w49a (1.1)	–
22	4	English (United Kingdom)	British English	en_gb	Great Britain, India, Singapore, Ireland...	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.15.0
23	–	English (New Zealand)	New Zealand English	en_nz	New Zealand	1.9	–
24	–	Pirate Speak	Pirate English	en_pt	The Seven Seas	12w01a (1.1)	–
25	–	ɥsᴉꞁᵷuƎ (uʍoᗡ ǝpᴉsd∩)	Upside down English	en_ud	None	1.9.2	–
26	5	English (US)	American English	en_us	USA	Java Edition Classic 0.0.9a or earlier	Pre-release
27	–	Anglish	Modern English minus borrowed words^[1]	enp	None	1.13-pre5 (1.13)	–
28	–	Shakespearean English	Early Modern English	enws	None	? (1.13)	–
29	–	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo_uy	Constructed language (International)	12w05a (1.2)	–
30	–	Español (Argentina)	Argentinian Spanish	es_ar	Argentina	11w49a (1.1)	–
31	–	Español (Chile)	Chilean Spanish	es_cl	Chile	18w16a (1.13)	–
32	–	Español (Ecuador)	Ecuadorian Spanish	es_ec	Ecuador	20w22a (1.16)	–
33	6	Español (España)	Spanish	es_es	Spain, Equatorial Guinea	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
34	7	Español (México)	Mexican Spanish	es_mx	Mexico	1.1	Alpha v0.12.1
35	–	Español (Uruguay)	Uruguayan Spanish	es_uy	Uruguay	1.1	–
36	–	Español (Venezuela)	Venezuelan Spanish	es_ve	Venezuela	12w01a (1.1)	–
37	–	Andalûh	Andalusian	esan	Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, Gibraltar	20w07a (1.16)	–
38	–	Eesti (Eesti)	Estonian	et_ee	Estonia	11w49a (1.1)	–
39	–	Euskara (Euskal Herria)	Basque	eu_es	Basque Country	12w01a (1.1)	–
40	–	فارسی (Fārsiy)	Persian	fa_ir	Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan	1.7.2	–
41	18	Suomi (Suomi)	Finnish	fi_fi	Finland	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
42	–	Filipino (Filipinas)	Filipino	fil_ph	Philippines	1.7.2	–
43	–	Føroyskt (Føroyar)	Faroese	fo_fo	Faroe Islands	1.9	–
44	8	Français (Québec)	Canadian French	fr_ca	Canada	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
45	9	Français (France)	French	fr_fr	France, Belgium, Monaco, Switzerland, ....	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
46	–	Frängisch	East Franconian	fra_de	Germany (Franconia)	1.13.1	–
47	–	Frysk (Fryslân)	Frisian	fy_nl	Netherlands	1.9	–
48	–	Gaeilge (Éire)	Irish	ga_ie	Ireland	12w21b (1.3.1)	–
49	–	Gàidhlig (Alba)	Scottish Gaelic	gd_gb	Scotland, Canada (Nova Scotia)	1.9.2	–
50	–	Galego (Galicia)	Galician	gl_es	Galicia (Spain)	1.1	–
51	–	ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawai‘i)	Hawaiian	haw_us	Hawaii	1.10	–
52	–	עברית ('Ivriyþ)	Hebrew	he_il	Israel	11w49a (1.1)	–
53	–	हिन्दी (Hindī)	Hindi	hi_in	India, Fiji	1.1	–
54	–	Hrvatski (Hrvatska)	Croatian	hr_hr	Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina	11w49a (1.1)	–
55	11	Magyar (Magyarország)	Hungarian	hu_hu	Hungary	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
56	–	Հայերեն (Hayeren)	Armenian	hy_am	Armenia	13w38c (1.7)	–
57	1	Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesia)	Indonesian	id_id	Indonesia	12w21b (1.3.1)	1.1 (build 1)
58	–	Igbo (Naijiria)	Igbo	ig_ng	Nigeria	18w15a (1.13)	–
59	–	Ido	Ido	io_en	Constructed language	? (1.11)	–
60	–	Íslenska (Ísland)	Icelandic	is_is	Iceland	11w49a (1.1)	–
61	–	Medžuslovjansky	Interslavic	isv	Constructed language (Slavic countries)	20w07a (1.16)	–
62	10	Italiano (Italia)	Italian	it_it	Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City State.	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
63	26	日本語 (Nihongo)	Japanese	ja_jp	Japan	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
64	–	la .lojban.	Lojban	jbo_en	Constructed language	1.9	–
65	–	ქართული (Kharthuli)	Georgian	ka_ge	Georgia	12w01a (1.1)	–
66	–	Қазақша (Qazaqşa)	Kazakh	kk_kz	Kazakhstan, northern Xinjiang(China), Mongolia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan	18w48a (1.14)	–
67	–	ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannađa)	Kannada	kn_in	India	18w16a (1.13)	–
68	29	한국어 (Hangugeo)	Korean	ko_kr	South Korea, North Korea, Yanbian(China)	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
69	–	Kölsch/Ripoarisch	Kölsch/Ripuarian	ksh	Germany (Rhineland), Belgium, Netherlands	1.9	–
70	–	Kernewek (Kernow)	Cornish	kw_gb	Cornwall	13w02a (1.5)	–
71	–	Latina (Latium)	Latin	la_la	Vatican (no native speakers, was the language of Roman Empire during Antiquity)	13w38c (1.7)	–
72	–	Lëtzebuergesch (Lëtzebuerg)	Luxembourgish	lb_lu	Luxembourg, Germany, France (region), Belgium	13w38c (1.7)	–
73	–	Limburgs	Limburgish	li_li	Netherlands, Belgium, Germany	1.9	–
74	–	LOLCAT (Kingdum ov Katz)	LOLCAT	lol_us	The Kingdom of Cats (Web language)	1.9	–
75	–	Lietuvių	Lithuanian	lt_lt	Lithuania (Lietuva)	11w49a (1.1)	–
76	–	Latviešu (Latvija)	Latvian	lv_lv	Latvia	12w01a (1.1)	–
77	–	文言（華夏）(wén yán (huá xià))	Classical Chinese	lzh	Sinosphere (was used as the official formal written language)	1.17.1-pre2 (1.17.1)	–
78	–	Македонски (Makedonski)	Macedonian	mk_mk	North Macedonia	1.9	–
79	–	Монгол (Mongol)	Mongolian	mn_mn	Mongolia, Inner Mongolia (China)	1.10	–
80	–	Bahasa Melayu (Malaysia)	Malay	ms_my	Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Cocos (Keeling) Islands	12w01a (1.1)	–
81	–	Malti (Malta)	Maltese	mt_mt	Malta	12w07a (1.2)^[2]	–
82	–	Platdüütsk	Low German	nds_de	Germany, Netherlands	1.7.4	–
83	–	Vlaams (Vlaanderen)	Dutch, Flemish	nl_be	Belgium, Netherlands	18w16a (1.13)	–
84	12	Nederlands (Nederland)	Dutch	nl_nl	Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Suriname.	11w49a (1.1)	1.0.3 (build 1)
85	–	Norsk nynorsk (Norge)	Norwegian Nynorsk	nn_no	Norway	11w49a (1.1)	–
86	13	Norsk Bokmål (Norge)	Norwegian Bokmål	no_no‌^{[JE only]} nb_no‌^{[BE only]}	Norway	13w02a (1.5)	1.1 (build 1)
87	–	Occitan	Occitan	oc_fr	Occitania (Val d'Aran in Spain, southern tier of France, several alpine valleys of Piedmont)	13w38c (1.7)	–
88	–	Övdalsk	Elfdalian	ovd	Älvdalen (Sweden)	1.13-pre3 (1.13)	–
89	14	Polski (Polska)	Polish	pl_pl	Poland	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
90	15	Português (Brasil)	Brazilian Portuguese	pt_br	Brazil	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
91	16	Português (Portugal)	Portuguese	pt_pt	Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, ...	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
92	–	Quenya	Quenya (Form of Elvish from LOTR)	qya_aa	Constructed language (Lord of the Rings: Aman)	1.1	–
93	–	Română (România)	Romanian	ro_ro	Romania, Moldova, Transnistria	12w01a (1.1)	–
94	–	Дореформенный русскiй (Doreformennɨĭ russkiĭ)	Russian (Pre-revolutionary)	rpr	Russian Empire	21w16a (1.17)	–
95	24	Русский (Russkiy)	Russian	ru_ru	Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, ....	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
96	–	Davvisámegiella	Northern Sami	se_no	Norway, Sweden, Finland	1.8	–
97	17	Slovenčina (Slovensko)	Slovak	sk_sk	Slovakia	12w01a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
98	–	Slovenščina (Slovenija)	Slovenian	sl_si	Slovenia	11w49a (1.1)	–
99	–	Af-Soomaali (Soomaaliya)	Somali	so_so	Somalia	1.9	–
100	–	Shqip (Shqiperia)	Albanian	sq_al	Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo	1.9	–
101	–	Српски/Srpski	Serbian (Cyrillic/Latin)	sr_sp	Serbia (Kosovo), Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina	12w01a (1.1)	–
102	19	Svenska (Sverige)	Swedish	sv_se	Sweden, Finland	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
103	–	Säggs'sch	Upper Saxon German	sxu	Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia	1.13-pre3 (1.13)	–
104	–	Ślōnskŏ	Silesian	szl	Upper Silesia (Poland)	1.13-pre3 (1.13)	–
105	–	தமிழ் (Tamił)	Tamil	ta_in	Sri Lanka, India (Tamil Nadu), Singapore	18w16a (1.13)	–
106	–	ไทย (thay)	Thai	th_th	Thailand	12w01a (1.1)	–
107	–	Tagalog (Pilipinas)	Tagalog	tl_ph	Philippines	1.15.1-pre1 (1.15.1)	–
108	–	tlhIngan Hol (tlhIngan wo')	Klingon	tlh_aa	Constructed language (Star Trek: the Klingon Empire)	12w01a (1.1)	–
109	20	Türkçe (Türkiye)	Turkish	tr_tr	Turkey	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
110	–	Татарча	Tatar	tt_ru	Tatarstan (Russia)	1.13.1	–
111	25	Українська (Ukrayins'ka)	Ukrainian	uk_ua	Ukraine, Transnistria.	12w01a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
112	–	Català (Valencià)	Valencian	val_es	Spain	1.7.4	–
113	–	Vèneto	Venetian	vec_it	Italy, Slovenia, Croatia	1.13-pre1 (1.13)	–
114	–	Tiếng Việt (Việt Nam)	Vietnamese	vi_vn	Vietnam	1.1	–
115	–	ייִדיש (Yidiš)	Yiddish	yi_de	United States, Germany, Israel, various European nations.	19w34a (1.15)	–
116	–	Yorùbá	Yoruba	yo_ng	Nigeria	18w15a (1.13)	–
117	27	简体中文 (中国) (Jiǎntǐ Zhōngwén (Zhōngguó))	Chinese Simplified (China; Mandarin)	zh_cn	Chinese mainland, Singapore, Malaysia	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
118	–	繁體中文 (香港) (Fàahntái Jūngmàhn (Hēunggóng))^[3]	Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong; Mix)	zh_hk	Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR	21w16a (1.17)	–
119	28	繁體中文 (台灣) (Fántǐ Zhōngwén (Táiwān))	Chinese Traditional (Taiwan; Mandarin)	zh_tw	Taiwan (Republic of China)	12w01a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)

↑ In other words, only Old English etymology. See Wikipedia:Linguistic purism in English.
↑ Maltese added in 11w49a but removed in 12w01a. It was then re-added in 12w07a.
↑ Note the transcription is different from Taiwan's Trad. Chinese. Hong Kong speaks Cantonese, but the written language is quite close to Mandarin (but read out in Cantonese).

Font[]

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Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm
Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
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! @ # $ £ % ^ & * ( ) _ - + = ~ [ ] { } | \ : ; " ' , < > . ? . /

Minecraft's default font is made up of a grid of dots. Each character supported by the font is between 1 and 6 dots wide. All ASCII characters between 32 (space) and 126 (~) are five dots wide, with the following exceptions:


ASCII codepoint	Character	Width (dots)
32	`space`	3
33	`!`	1
34	`"`	3
39	`'`	1
40	`(`	3
41	`)`	3
42	`*`	3
44	`,`	1
46	`.`	1
58	`:`	1
59	`;`	1
60	`<`	4
62	`>`	4
64	`@`	6
73	`I`	3
91	`[`	3
93	`]`	3
96	`	2
102	`f`	4
105	`i`	1
107	`k`	4
108	`l`	2
116	`t`	3
123	`{`	3
124	`\|`	1
125	`}`	3
126	`~`	6

The space between characters is one dot wide.

Unicode[]

It has some of the Unicode characters. These characters are stored in ascii.png, accented.png and nonlatin_european.png file. If a character is typed (e.g. in chat, on a sign, in a book, etc.) that isn't either in these files, the font changes to Minecraft's "Unicode font" (stored in unicode_page_nn.png) that has thinner lines. The "Unicode font" supports the "BMP" (Basic Multilingual Plane) section of Unicode characters, from 0000 to FFFF (decimal 65535), which is also limited, because it's only a part of Unicode characters, not all of them.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Emoji added in version 1.16.2 Pre-release 1 and relative items.

The list of currently supported characters can be seen below in order of appearance in the sheets:


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History[]

Here is a table that summarizes the modifications of languages through the updates:

Java Edition
Version		Added	Removed	Total
Release	Snapshot	Added	Removed	Total
1.1	11w49a	35	–	36
	12w01a	17	3	50
	(1.1 release)	6	–	56
1.2.1	12w05a	1	–	57
1.2.1	12w07a	1	–	58
1.3.1	12w21b	3	–	61
1.5	13w02a	2	1	62
1.7.2	13w38c	4	?	66
1.7.4	–	3	?	69
1.7.10	–	1	?	70
1.8	–	1	–	71
1.9	–	13	–	84
1.9.2	25 April 2016	2	–	86
1.10	–	4	–	90
1.11	–	1	–	91
1.12	–	2	1	92
1.13	–	19	–	111
1.13.1	–	4	–	115
1.14.3	1.14.3-pre3	2	–	117
1.15	19w34a	1	–	118
1.17	21w03a	–	7	111
1.17	21w16a	2	–	113
1.17.1	1.17.1-pre2	1	3	111
Pocket Edition
Version		Added	Removed	Total
Release	Build	Added	Removed	Total
v0.11.0	build 1	13	–	13
v0.12.1	–	1	–	14
v0.15.0	–	1	–	15
1.0.3	alpha 1.0.3.0	1	–	16
1.1.0	alpha 1.1.0.0	13	–	29

Upcoming languages[]

Upcoming and still-in-progress translations are listed on the official Minecraft translation project page.

Removed languages[]

Austrian German was removed from Minecraft temporarily in version 12w01a because it was too similar to German. However, it has been re-included to the game again in version 1.10.

Java Edition
Name	Language	Locale Code	Official language in	Added in	Removed in	Reason
Español (La)	Latino-American Spanish	es_LA	South America	11w49a (1.1)	12w01a (1.1)	Replaced by Argentinian, Mexican, Venezuelan, Uruguayan Spanish translations.
Norsk Bokmål	Norwegian	nb_NO	Norway	11w49a (1.1)	13w02a (1.5)	Added 'Norsk' (no_NO) instead.
English (South Africa)	South African English	en_za	South Africa	1.10	^{[more information needed]}	^{[more information needed]}
Gutrazda	Gothic	got	Dead language; has a revival moment.	1.14.3-pre3 (1.14.3)	21w03a (1.17)	Highly significant amount of untranslated strings.
Taqbaylit	Kabyle	kab_dz	Algeria	18w15a (1.13)
Te Reo Māori	Māori	mi_nz	New Zealand	1.7.10
Kanien’kéha	Mohawk	moh_ca	Canada, United States	1.13.1
Nuučaan̓uł	Nuu-chah-nulth	nuk	Pacific Northwest Coast (Canada)	1.13.1-pre2 (1.13.1)
Ojibwemowin	Ojibwe	oji	Canada: Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia United States: Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana	1.13-pre5 (1.13)
Talossan	Talossan	tzl_tzl	Constructed language	1.9
Gaelg (Mannin)	Manx	gv_im	Isle of Man	1.7.4	1.17.1-pre2 (1.17.1)	Potential amount of untranslated strings.
Sicilianu	Sicilian	scn	Sicily, Calabria	1.15.1-pre1 (1.15.1)
Oschdallgaierisch	Allgovian German	swg	Germany	1.10

Translating[]

Issues[]

In some languages, the text is too long and overflows the button it is written on.
Minecraft doesn't support combining characters, leading to some characters displaying improperly, e.g. diacritics appear as a separate character in some languages like Hindi, Tamil, Yiddish, or Thai.
Splash texts are not translated and therefore always show up in English regardless of language setting.
- As of 1.6.1, a custom (not just translated) splash text can be used by using a resource pack.
Minecraft's language option is only for text display. In some languages (such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and so on) players cannot input text in their languages. This is because Minecraft doesn't support the input method of the language. Some users can still use mods that support it.
- Alternative language input was partially resolved in 14w34c and 15w43a when MC-2781 was fixed, but still is not functional for all systems.
- Because 17w43a upgrades LWJGL, the issue is basically resolved.^[1]

Trivia[]

Minecraft is available in eight constructed languages:
- Anglish; a language based on modern English but with all non-Germanic loan words removed,
- Esperanto; devised as an international language now estimated to be spoken by about 2,000,000 people worldwide,
- Ido; a language derived from Esperanto,
- Interslavic; a language based on Slavic languages created to facilitate communication between Slavs,
- Klingon; an alien language from Star Trek devised by linguist Marc Okrand,
- Lojban; a language created by the Logical Language Group,
- Quenya; one of the Elvish languages devised by J.R.R. Tolkien,
- Talossan; a language created for the Talossa micronation. It has been removed in Java Edition 1.17 snapshot 21w03a as its translations were incomplete.
It is also available in the joke "languages" of
- LOLCAT; English written in the way a stereotypical Lolcat talks,
- Pirate Speak; English written in the way a stereotypical pirate talks,
- Shakespearean English; English based on the literary style of William Shakespeare.
- Upside down English.
According to the Bedrock Edition Chat Settings and the Bedrock Edition game files, the name of the font used by the game is called "Mojangles".
It is possible to add a custom language pack by modifying the minecraft.jar file, or, as of 13w16a, copying it to the assets/lang folder. In 1.6.1 (Java Edition 13w24a), this functionality was added to resource packs.
Before, obfuscated text would choose random characters of only the same width. Now, it's no longer the case, as all supported characters are taken into account.
Many glyphs are supported by the Minecraft font, but not all of them. GNU Unifont is used for several languages that use detailed characters, like Chinese or Tamil. See Resource Pack#Legacy Unicode.

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Countries where Minecraft comes in an official language
Top 20 languages on 4 April 2016

References[]

↑ A comment in MC-2781.

Gameplay

[1] In other words, only Old English etymology. See Wikipedia:Linguistic purism in English.

[2] Maltese added in 11w49a but removed in 12w01a. It was then re-added in 12w07a.

[3] Note the transcription is different from Taiwan's Trad. Chinese. Hong Kong speaks Cantonese, but the written language is quite close to Mandarin (but read out in Cantonese).

[4] A comment in MC-2781.

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