Language values

The languages and excludeLanguages filters of People search and People search count take language names in English. Profiles store their languages in their own spelling (Français, Inglese, Deutsch), and the 34 names below also match those spellings.

You can pass a single string or an array of strings, and an array is OR-matched.

{
  "languages": ["German", "Dutch"],
  "excludeLanguages": "French"
}

Languages matched across spellings (34)

• Arabic
• Bengali
• Catalan
• Chinese
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Mandarin
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Punjabi
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tagalog
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Urdu
• Vietnamese

How values are matched

• The list is not closed: any other value is accepted and matches its exact spelling only.
• Matching compares whole names: "French" does not match "French Creole".
• There is no proficiency level: any level matches.
• About one profile in six lists its languages, so a languages filter leaves out every profile that lists none.
• excludeLanguages keeps profiles that list no language, and only refines a search: sent alone, it is rejected. See Languages on the People search page.
• To find the spellings profiles use for a language outside the list, call Search autocomplete with the languages field.