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	In-game	ISO 639-3	Official language	JE	BE
1	–	Afrikaans	Afrikaans (Suid-Afrika)	af_za	afr_ZA	Namibia, South Africa	12w01a (1.1)	–
2	–	اللغة العربية (alLuġah al'Arabiyye)	Arabic	ar_sa	ara_SA	Arab League (Middle East and North Africa)	12w01a (1.1)	–
3	–	Asturianu	Asturian	ast_es	ast_ES	Asturias (Spain)	1.7.4	–
4	–	Azərbaycanca (Azərbaycan)	Azerbaijani	az_az	aze_AZ	Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Azerbaijani Iran	1.7.10	–
5	–	Башҡортса	Bashkir	ba_ru	bak_RU	Bashkortostan (Russia)	1.14.3-pre3 (1.14.3)	–
6	–	Boarisch	Bavarian	bar	bar_DE	Bavaria	18w48a (1.14)	–
7	–	Беларуская (Беларусь)	Belarusian	be_by	bel_BY	Belarus	1.9	–
8	23	Български (България)	Bulgarian	bg_bg	bul_BG	Bulgaria	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
9	–	Brezhoneg (Breizh)	Breton	br_fr	bre_FR	Brittany (Celtic Nation inside of France)	1.9	–
10	–	Braobans	Brabantian	brb	qbr_NL	Netherlands	1.13.1-pre1 (1.13.1)	–
11	–	Bosanski (Bosna i Hercegovina)	Bosnian	bs_ba	bos_BA	Bosnia and Herzegovina	18w16a (1.13)	–
12	–	Català (Catalunya)	Catalan	ca_es	cat_ES	Spain (Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencia), Andorra	12w01a (1.1)	–
13	21	Čeština (Česko)	Czech	cs_cz	ces_CZ	Czechia	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
14	–	Cymraeg (Cymru)	Welsh	cy_gb	cym_GB	Wales (United Kingdom)	11w49a (1.1)	–
15	2	Dansk (Danmark)	Danish	da_dk	dan_DK	Denmark, Faroe Islands	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
16	–	Österreichisches Deitsch	Austrian German	de_at	bar_AT	Austria	1.10	–
17	–	Schwiizerdutsch	Swiss German	de_ch	gsw_CH	Switzerland	18w15a (1.13)	–
18	3	Deutsch	German	de_de	deu_DE	Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belgium	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
19	22	Ελληνικά (Ελλάδα)	Greek	el_gr	ell_GR	Greece, Cyprus	12w01a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
20	–	English (Australia)	Australian English	en_au	eng_AU	Australia	12w21b (1.3.1)	–
21	–	English (Canada)	Canadian English	en_ca	eng_CA	Canada	11w49a (1.1)	–
22	4	English (United Kingdom)	British English	en_gb	eng_GB	United Kingdom, India, Singapore, Ireland	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.15.0
23	–	English (New Zealand)	New Zealand English	en_nz	eng_NZ	New Zealand	1.9	–
24	–	Pirate Speak	Pirate English	en_pt	qpe	The Seven Seas	12w01a (1.1)	–
25	–	ɥsᴉꞁᵷuƎ (uʍoᗡ ǝpᴉsd∩)	Upside down British English	en_ud	eng-Qabs_GB	(none)	1.9.2	–
26	5	English (US)	American English	en_us		United States	0.0.2a	Pre-release
27	–	Anglish	Modern English minus borrowed words^{[note 1]}	enp	qep	Foroned Kingdom	1.13-pre5 (1.13)	–
28	–	Shakespearean English	Early Modern English	enws	qes	Kingdom of England	? (1.13)	–
29	–	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo_uy	epo	Constructed language (international)	12w05a (1.2.1)	–
30	–	Español (Argentina)	Argentinian Spanish	es_ar	spa_AR	Argentina	11w49a (1.1)	–
31	–	Español (Chile)	Chilean Spanish	es_cl	spa_CL	Chile	18w16a (1.13)	–
32	–	Español (Ecuador)	Ecuadorian Spanish	es_ec	spa_EC	Ecuador	20w22a (1.16)	–
33	6	Español (España)	European Spanish	es_es	spa_ES	Spain, Equatorial Guinea	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
34	7	Español (México)	Mexican Spanish	es_mx	spa_MX	Mexico	1.1	Alpha v0.12.1
35	–	Español (Uruguay)	Uruguayan Spanish	es_uy	spa_UY	Uruguay	1.1	–
36	–	Español (Venezuela)	Venezuelan Spanish	es_ve	spa_VE	Venezuela	12w01a (1.1)	–
37	–	Andalûh	Andalusian	esan	spa_ES-AN	Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, Gibraltar	20w07a (1.16)	–
38	–	Eesti (Eesti)	Estonian	et_ee	est_EE	Estonia	11w49a (1.1)	–
39	–	Euskara (Euskal Herria)	Basque	eu_es	eus_ES	Basque Country (Spain)	12w01a (1.1)	–
40	–	فارسی (Fārsiy)	Persian	fa_ir	fas_IR	Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan	1.7.2	–
41	18	Suomi (Suomi)	Finnish	fi_fi	fin_FI	Finland	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
42	–	Filipino (Filipinas)	Filipino	fil_ph	fil_PH	Philippines	1.7.2	–
43	–	Føroyskt (Føroyar)	Faroese	fo_fo	fao_FO	Faroe Islands	1.9	–
44	8	Français (Québec)	Canadian French	fr_ca	fra_CA	Canada	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
45	9	Français (France)	European French	fr_fr	fra_FR	France, Belgium, Monaco, Switzerland,...	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
46	–	Fränggisch (Franggn)	East Franconian	fra_de	vmf_DE	Franconia (Germany)	1.13.1	–
47	–	Furlan (Friûl)	Friulian	fur_it	fur_IT	Italy (Friuli)	22w03a (1.18.2)	–
48	–	Frysk (Fryslân)	Frisian	fy_nl	fry_NL	Netherlands	1.9	–
49	–	Gaeilge (Éire)	Irish	ga_ie	gle_IE	Ireland	12w21b (1.3.1)	–
50	–	Gàidhlig (Alba)	Scottish Gaelic	gd_gb	gla_GB	Scotland (United Kingdom), Canada (Nova Scotia)	1.9.2	–
51	–	Galego (Galicia)	Galician	gl_es	glg_ES	Galicia (Spain)	1.1	–
52	–	ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawai‘i)	Hawaiian	haw_us	haw_US	Hawaii (United States)	1.10	–
53	–	עברית ('Ivriyþ)	Hebrew	he_il	heb_IL	Israel	11w49a (1.1)	–
54	–	हिन्दी (Hindī)	Hindi	hi_in	hin_IN	India, Fiji	1.1	–
55	–	Hrvatski (Hrvatska)	Croatian	hr_hr	hrv_HR	Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina	11w49a (1.1)	–
56	11	Magyar (Magyarország)	Hungarian	hu_hu	hun_HU	Hungary	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
57	–	Հայերեն (Hayeren)	Armenian	hy_am	hye_AM	Armenia	13w38c (1.7.2)	–
58	1	Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesia)	Indonesian	id_id	ind_ID	Indonesia	12w21b (1.3.1)	1.1 (build 1)
59	–	Igbo (Naijiria)	Igbo	ig_ng	ibo_NG	Nigeria	18w15a (1.13)	–
60	–	Ido	Ido	io_en	ido	Constructed language	? (1.11)	–
61	–	Íslenska (Ísland)	Icelandic	is_is	isl_IS	Iceland	11w49a (1.1)	–
62	–	Medžuslovjansky	Interslavic	isv	qis	Constructed language (Slavic countries)	20w07a (1.16)	–
63	10	Italiano (Italia)	Italian	it_it	ita_IT	Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City State	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
64	26	日本語 (Nihongo)	Japanese	ja_jp	jpn_JP	Japan	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
65	–	la .lojban.	Lojban	jbo_en	jbo	Constructed language	1.9	–
66	–	ქართული (Kharthuli)	Georgian	ka_ge	kat_GE	Georgia	12w01a (1.1)	–
67	–	Қазақша (Qazaqşa)	Kazakh	kk_kz	kaz_KZ	Kazakhstan, northern Xinjiang (China), Mongolia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan	18w48a (1.14)	–
68	–	ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannađa)	Kannada	kn_in	kan_IN	India	18w16a (1.13)	–
69	29	한국어 (Hangugeo)	Korean	ko_kr	kor_KR	South Korea, North Korea, Yanbian (China)	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
70	–	Kölsch/Ripoarisch	Kölsch/Ripuarian	ksh	ksh_DE	Germany (Rhineland), Belgium, Netherlands	1.9	–
71	–	Kernewek (Kernow)	Cornish	kw_gb	cor_GB	Cornwall	13w02a (1.5)	–
72	–	Latina (Latium)	Latin	la_la	lat_VA	Vatican (no native speakers, was the language of Roman Empire during antiquity)	13w38c (1.7.2)	–
73	–	Lëtzebuergesch (Lëtzebuerg)	Luxembourgish	lb_lu	ltz_LU	Luxembourg, Germany, France (regional), Belgium	13w38c (1.7.2)	–
74	–	Limburgs	Limburgish	li_li	lim_NL	Netherlands, Belgium, Germany	1.9	–
75	–	Lombard (Lombardia)	Lombard	lmo	lmo_IT	Italy (Lombardy, Piedmont, South Tyrol, Trentino), Switzerland (Grisons, Ticino), Brazil (Santa Catarina)	21w38a (1.18)	–
76	–	ລາວ (ປະເທດລາວ)	Lao	lo_la	lao_LA	Laos, Thailand (Isan), Cambodia (Stung Treng, Preah Vihear and Ratanakiri), Vietnam (Điện Biên, Lai Châu and Sơn La)	1.20	–
77	–	LOLCAT (Kingdom of Cats)	LOLCAT	lol_us	qll	The Kingdom of Cats (Web language)	1.9	–
78	–	Lietuvių	Lithuanian	lt_lt	lit_LT	Lithuania	11w49a (1.1)	–
79	–	Latviešu (Latvija)	Latvian	lv_lv	lav_LV	Latvia	12w01a (1.1)	–
80	–	文言（華夏）(Wényán (Huáxià))	Classical Chinese	lzh	lzh	Sinosphere (was used as the official formal written language)	1.17.1-pre2 (1.17.1)	–
81	–	Македонски (Makedonski)	Macedonian	mk_mk	mkd_MK	North Macedonia	1.9	–
82	–	Монгол (Mongol)	Mongolian	mn_mn	mon_MN	Mongolia, Inner Mongolia (China)	1.10	–
83	–	Bahasa Melayu (Malaysia)	Malay	ms_my	zlm_MY	Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Cocos (Keeling) Islands	12w01a (1.1)	–
84	–	Malti (Malta)	Maltese	mt_mt	mlt_MT	Malta	12w07a (1.2.1)^{[note 2]}	–
85	–	Mēxikatlahtōlli (Mēxiko)	Nahuatl	nah	nhe_MX	Mexico, United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Canada	22w43a (1.19.3)	–
86	–	Platdüütsk	Low German	nds_de	nds_DE	Germany, Netherlands	1.7.4	–
87	–	Vlaams (Vlaanderen)	Dutch, Flemish	nl_be	nld_BE	Belgium, Netherlands	18w16a (1.13)	–
88	12	Nederlands (Nederland)	Dutch	nl_nl	nld_NL	Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Suriname.	11w49a (1.1)	1.0.3 (build 1)
89	–	Norsk nynorsk (Norge)	Norwegian Nynorsk	nn_no	nno_NO	Norway	11w49a (1.1)	–
90	13	Norsk Bokmål (Norge)	Norwegian Bokmål	no_no‌^{[JE only]} nb_no‌^{[BE only]}	nob_NO	Norway	13w02a (1.5)	1.1 (build 1)
91	–	Occitan	Occitan	oc_fr	oci_FR	Occitania (Val d'Aran in Spain, southern tier of France, several alpine valleys of Piedmont)	13w38c (1.7.2)	–
92	–	Övdalsk	Elfdalian	ovd	ovd_SE	Älvdalen (Sweden)	1.13-pre3 (1.13)	–
93	14	Polski (Polska)	Polish	pl_pl	pol_PL	Poland	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
94	15	Português (Brasil)	Brazilian Portuguese	pt_br	por_BR	Brazil	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
95	16	Português (Portugal)	European Portuguese	pt_pt	por_PT	Portugal, Angola, Mozambique	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
96	–	Quenya	Quenya (Form of Elvish from LOTR)	qya_aa	qya	Constructed language (Lord of the Rings: Aman)	1.1	–
97	–	Română (România)	Romanian	ro_ro	ron_RO	Romania, Moldova, Transnistria	12w01a (1.1)	–
98	–	Дореформенный русскiй (Doreformennɨĭ russkiĭ)	Russian (Pre-revolutionary)	rpr	qpr	Russian Empire	21w16a (1.17)	–
99	24	Русский (Russkiy)	Russian	ru_ru	rus_RU	Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
100	–	Руснацькый (Пудкарпатя, Украина)	Rusyn	ry_ua	rue_UA	Slovakia, Serbia (Vojvodina), Poland, Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast), Croatia, Hungary, Czechia	22w43a (1.19.3)	–
101	–	Сахалыы (Cаха Сирэ)	Yakut	sah_sah	sah_RU	Russia (Sakha)	1.20	–
102	–	Davvisámegiella	Northern Sami	se_no	sme_NO	Norway, Sweden, Finland	1.8	–
103	17	Slovenčina (Slovensko)	Slovak	sk_sk	slk_SK	Slovakia	12w01a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
104	–	Slovenščina (Slovenija)	Slovenian	sl_si	slv_SI	Slovenia	11w49a (1.1)	–
105	–	Af-Soomaali (Soomaaliya)	Somali	so_so	som_SO	Somalia	1.9	–
106	–	Shqip (Shqiperia)	Albanian	sq_al	sqi_AL	Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo	1.9	–
107	–	Srpski (Srbija)	Serbian (Latin)	sr_cs	srp-Latn_RS	Serbia (Kosovo), Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.20.1-rc1 (1.20.1)	–
108	–	Српски (Србија)	Serbian (Cyrillic)	sr_sp	srp-Cyrl_RS	Serbia (Kosovo), Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina	12w01a (1.1)	–
109	19	Svenska (Sverige)	Swedish	sv_se	swe_SE	Sweden, Finland	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
110	–	Säggs'sch	Upper Saxon German	sxu	sxu_DE	Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia	1.13-pre3 (1.13)	–
111	–	Ślōnskŏ	Silesian	szl	szl_PL	Upper Silesia (Poland)	1.13-pre3 (1.13)	–
112	–	தமிழ் (Tamił)	Tamil	ta_in	tam_IN	Sri Lanka, India (Tamil Nadu), Singapore	18w16a (1.13)	–
113	–	ไทย (thay)	Thai	th_th	tha_TH	Thailand	12w01a (1.1)	–
114	–	Tagalog (Pilipinas)	Tagalog	tl_ph	tgl_PH	Philippines	1.15.1-pre1 (1.15.1)	–
115	–	tlhIngan Hol (tlhIngan wo')	Klingon	tlh_aa	tlh	Constructed language (Star Trek: the Klingon Empire)	12w01a (1.1)	–
116	–	toki pona (ma pona)	Toki Pona	tok	tok	Constructed language	21w38a (1.18)	–
117	20	Türkçe (Türkiye)	Turkish	tr_tr	tur_TR	Türkiye, Cyprus	11w49a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
118	–	Татарча	Tatar	tt_ru	tat_RU	Tatarstan (Russia)	1.13.1	–
119	25	Українська (Ukrayins'ka)	Ukrainian	uk_ua	ukr_UA	Ukraine, Transnistria	12w01a (1.1)	1.1 (build 1)
120	–	Català (Valencià)	Valencian	val_es	cat_ES-VC	Spain	1.7.4	–
121	–	Vèneto	Venetian	vec_it	vec_IT	Italy, Slovenia, Croatia	1.13-pre1 (1.13)	–
122	–	Tiếng Việt (Việt Nam)	Vietnamese	vi_vn	vie_VN	Vietnam	1.1	–
123	–	ייִדיש (Yidiš)	Yiddish	yi_de	yid_IL	United States, Germany, Israel, various European nations	19w34a (1.15)	–
124	–	Yorùbá	Yoruba	yo_ng	yor_NG	Nigeria	18w15a (1.13)	–
125	27	简体中文（中国大陆） (Jiǎntǐ Zhōngwén (Zhōngguó Dàlù))	Chinese Simplified (China; Mandarin)	zh_cn	zho-Hans_CN	Mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia	11w49a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
126	–	繁體中文（香港特別行政區） (Fàahntái Jūngmàhn (Hēunggóng Dahkbiht Hàhngjingkēui))^{[note 3]}	Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong; Mix)	zh_hk	zho-Hant_HK	Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR	21w16a (1.17)	–
127	28	繁體中文（台灣） (Fántǐ Zhōngwén (Táiwān))	Chinese Traditional (Taiwan; Mandarin)	zh_tw	zho-Hant_TW	Taiwan (Republic of China)	12w01a (1.1)	Alpha v0.11.0 (build 1)
128	–	بهاس ملايو (مليسيا)	Malay (Jawi)	zlm_arab	zlm-Arab_MY	Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Cocos (Keeling) Islands	1.19-pre4 (1.19)	–

Notes[]

↑ 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.
↑ 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).

The table above includes the following 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.
Toki Pona; a philosophical language created by Sonja Lang. It is known for having a limited lexicon of 120-137 words, though the exact number can fluctuate due to changes proposed/made by its community.

Java Edition is also available in the following joke "languages":

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.

Font[]

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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.

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.

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 JE 1.16 — 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[]

This section needs to be rewritten. ^[discuss^]

It may contain inappropriate or inaccurate information. Please help us by rewriting it.
Reason: Numbers for Java Edition are obviously inaccurate, the total number should be 128 in 1.20.1-rc1+.

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
1.18	21w38a	2	–	113
1.18.2	22w03a	1	–	114
1.19	1.19-pre4	1	–	115
1.19.3	22w43a	2	–	117
1.20	(1.20 release)	2	–	119
1.20.1	1.20.1-rc1	1	–	128
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)	Latin American Spanish	es_LA	South America	11w49a (1.1)	12w01a (1.1)	Split into Argentinian, Mexican, Venezuelan, Uruguayan Spanish translations.
Norsk Bokmål	Norwegian	nb_NO	Norway	11w49a (1.1)	13w02a (1.5)	Replaced by 'Norsk' (no_NO).
English (South Africa)	South African English	en_za	South Africa	1.10	Before 18w06a	^{[more information needed]}
Gutrazda	Gothic	got	Obsolete 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

File history[]

Java Edition Beta
1.0		Added language files. Their names take the format of "`en_US.lang`".
1.0		To define translations, they used "[translation key]=[translation]".
Java Edition
1.6.1	13w16a	All language files except `en_US.lang` were removed from the jar.
1.6.1	13w26a	`en_US.lang` is now located in the `assets/minecraft/lang` folder instead of the `lang` folder of the jar.
1.11	16w32a	Changed name format to "`en_us.lang`".
1.13	18w02a	Languages now use JSON, and use "`en_us.json`".
1.19.3	22w42a	Language files are no longer tied to the game version now, which means old strings are still reserved in the language while new strings will be added from time to time so that the old versions can still receive changes with translations. However, versions prior to 1.19.3 can no longer receive changes with the language file.
1.19.4	23w07a	`en_us.json` is now sorted alphanumerically by key.

Translating[]

Issues[]

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]
- Because 1.20-pre5 upgrades Unifont, almost all CJK characters can be displayed properly now.

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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.
All language files can be found in the same way as sound files (except the en_us.json file, where it is found on client.jar instead.)