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# Languages

See your active languages and add new ones.

## Enabled Languages

This lists the languages enabled in your Project, along with the percentage of human vs AI vs untranslated content for each language.

* To disable a language, click on the **Enabled** toggle.
* To reenable a disabled language, click **Show disabled languages** and toggle it back on again.

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### Adding a Language

To add a new language, click the **Add Language** button.

Then you can either scroll through the list or search for a language by starting to type in the **Add a language** text entry field. After finding the desired language, click the **Add** button. You can add multiple languages by clicking in the bar again.

See the [list of supported languages](https://localizejs.com/pricing-languages/human-translations) here.

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When selecting a language, you'll be able to see the options available for that language to be translated within the Localize platform, including by a human Language Service Provider, AI translation engine, Smart Select, or manual translations.

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### Language Locales

If the language that you want to add has one or more [locales](https://help.localizejs.com/docs/regional-dialects), they will appear below the main language in the list. Select the desired locale or the main language.

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## Language Settings

On the [Language Settings](https://app.localizejs.com/project/languages/settings) page, you can set your default AI translation settings, set up the **Translation QA** workflow, and set up the **Translation Quality Score** feature.

### Order AI Translations

You can order automatically generated AI translations using one of our supported AI Translation Engines. This option is enabled by default, with Google selected as the default. However, you can use a different translation engine for each language in your project!

1. Click **Settings** on the [Languages](https://app.localizejs.com/project/languages) page.
2. Click **Order AI Translations** on the **Language Settings** page.
3. Select the toggle to enable/disable this option.

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4. Set the **Project Default Engine** for the entire project.
5. Set the **Language-Specific Engines** on a per-language basis.
6. When ready, click **Save**.

### Smart Select

Choose the **Smart Select** option if you want Localize to pick the best AI translation engine for a particular language.

NOTE: If you have [Google](https://help.localizejs.com/docs/google-glossary-sync) or [DeepL](https://help.localizejs.com/docs/deepl-glossary-sync) Glossary Sync enabled, Smart Select will pick either Google or DeepL as the preferred translation engine.

### Supported Translation Engines

To see a list of supported languages for the supported translation engines, [click here...](https://help.localizejs.com/docs/supported-languages)

> 📘 Supported AI Translation Engines
>
> We support the following engines.
>
> 1. Smart Select
> 2. Google
> 3. Amazon
> 4. Microsoft
> 5. DeepL
> 6. OpenAI's GPT
> 7. Anthropic's Claude

### Translation QA

The Translation QA workflow allows translation managers to review proposed translations before publishing.

See the [Translation QA](https://help.localizejs.com/docs/translation-qa) help doc for more details.

1. Click **Settings** on the [Languages](https://app.localizejs.com/project/languages) page.
2. Click **Translation QA** on the **Language Settings** page.
3. Select the toggle to enable/disable this option.

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#### Translation QA Per Language

The **Translation QA** workflow can be enabled or disabled on a per-language basis.

* Toggle the **Enabled** option on or off as desired per language.

> 🚧 Translations May be Moved
>
> Toggling off Translation QA for a language will move all translations in that are in any of the Translation QA bins into the Published bin.

### Translation Quality Score

Enabling the **Translation Quality Scoring** option allows Localize to evaluate the linguistic quality of translated content, helping to ensure accuracy.

1. Select the checkbox to toggle this option on or off, then select **Save**.

* When enabled, Translation Quality Scores will be displayed in the phrases panel and the **[Translation Insights](https://help.localizejs.com/docs/ai-one-click-actions#translation-insights)** drawer.

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### Translation Quality Score Automations

1. Select the checkbox to toggle this option on or off, then select **Save**.
   1. After enabling TQS Automations, newly scored translations will be automatically processed according to the  **Automation Rules** rubric.

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2. The **Language-Specific TQS Configuration** settings allow you to enable or disable TQS scoring per language.

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