OpenAI’s large language model (LLM), ChatGPT has become one of the most widely used chatbots in the world. As of 2024, ChatGPT has more than 200 million monthly active users across the globe. With such a diverse and expansive user base, ChatGPT needs to cater to the linguistic needs of people from various regions.
Hence, the chatbot supports several languages, so users from all over the world can interact with it using their preferred language.
So, exactly how many languages does ChatGPT support? Let’s find out.
In this article, we will cover the list of languages supported by ChatGPT as well as how to change the language or generate prompts using a different language.
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How Many Languages Does ChatGPT Support?
As of 2024, ChatGPT offers its services in more than 50 languages. To be precise, it can understand only 58 languages. It might seem a lot, but it actually is not.
There are more than 7,000 spoken languages in the world and technically speaking, ChatGPT only covers about 0.8% of all languages.
Technicality aside, the languages covered by ChatGPT are some of the most prominent in the world. These 58 languages are spoken by the majority of the population, including English, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, Urdu, and more.
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ChatGPT Supported Languages List
Let’s look at all of the languages that ChatGPT supports:
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
How to use ChatGPT in a Different Language?
You can change your preferred language while using ChatGPT using these steps.
1. If you have been using ChatGPT for a while in one language, say English, you will not be able to change it to a different one, if you are not logged in. So, the first step is to visit https://chatgpt.com/ and log in to your account.
2. After logging in, go to your ‘Profile’ (click on the profile icon on the bottom-left corner of the page) and go to settings.
3. In the ‘General’ tab, you will find ‘Language’ as the third option. Select it and then choose whichever language you prefer to communicate.
If you use the ChatGPT app on your mobile, then follow these steps to change its language:
1. Open the ChatGPT app, and go to the sidebar.
2. After the sidebar opens, you will find your profile icon at the bottom, click on it.
3. Under App, choose the Language option.
4. You will find the list of languages supported by ChatGPT in a dropdown. Choose whichever language you want to communicate in.
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How to Generate a Response in Different Language in ChatGPT?
There are two ways you can generate a response in a different language in ChatGPT. Here are they:
- Language Specification: You can ask your question in English and specify which language you would like the response in. For example, you might ask, “How do I bake a cake?” and then add “Answer in French.” ChatGPT will respond to your prompt in French.
- Direct Language Input: You can also ask your question directly in the language you want the answer in. For instance, if you ask “¿Cómo horneo un pastel?” in Spanish (How do I bake a cake?), ChatGPT will reply to your prompt in Spanish.
The Bottom Line
To sum up, ChatGPT supports over 58 global languages that are spoken by the majority of the world’s population. That being said, the chatbot is not as efficient in other languages compared to English. This is because ChatGPT was primarily trained on English data. The capability of ChatGPT to handle a language is determined by how much training data it has in that language. If there is more data available in a certain language, ChatGPT will perform better at understanding and formulating responses; because it has been exposed to patterns and structures specific to that language.
Languages are grouped by the quantity of data accessible to train them, and “high-resource” languages have plentiful material. The most notable high-resource language is English, but others such as Chinese or Spanish also fall into this group due to their large speaker population and substantial digital content in these tongues.
On the other hand, “low-resource” languages refer to those with restricted training materials which can impact the abilities of the model in those specific tongues.
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