Supported Languages

Sarvam AI supports 22+ Indian languages across all its APIs.

Language Codes

Use BCP-47 language codes when calling translation, transliteration, STT, and TTS endpoints:

Language	Code	Script
Assamese	as-IN	Bengali
Bengali	bn-IN	Bengali
Bodo	brx-IN	Devanagari
Dogri	doi-IN	Devanagari
English	en-IN	Latin
Gujarati	gu-IN	Gujarati
Hindi	hi-IN	Devanagari
Kannada	kn-IN	Kannada
Kashmiri	ks-IN	Arabic/Devanagari
Konkani	kok-IN	Devanagari
Maithili	mai-IN	Devanagari
Malayalam	ml-IN	Malayalam
Manipuri	mni-IN	Bengali/Meetei Mayek
Marathi	mr-IN	Devanagari
Nepali	ne-IN	Devanagari
Odia	od-IN	Odia
Punjabi	pa-IN	Gurmukhi
Sanskrit	sa-IN	Devanagari
Santali	sat-IN	Ol Chiki
Sindhi	sd-IN	Arabic/Devanagari
Tamil	ta-IN	Tamil
Telugu	te-IN	Telugu
Urdu	ur-IN	Arabic

Auto-Detection

The translation and transliteration APIs support automatic source language detection by using auto as the source language code:

var response = await client.TranslateTextAsync(
    request: new TranslateRequest
    {
        Input = "नमस्ते, आप कैसे हैं?",
        SourceLanguageCode = TranslateRequestSourceLanguageCode.Auto,
        TargetLanguageCode = TranslateRequestTargetLanguageCode.EnIn,
    });

Language Detection

Use the dedicated language detection endpoint to identify the language and script of input text:

var response = await client.DetectLanguageAsync(
    request: new DetectLanguageRequest
    {
        Input = "నమస్కారం",
    });

Console.WriteLine($"Language: {response.LanguageCode}");  // te-IN
Console.WriteLine($"Script: {response.ScriptCode}");      // Telu