mkdocs-material/docs/guides/changing-the-language.md
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Changing the language

Material for MkDocs supports internationalization (i18n) and provides translations for template variables and labels in 40+ languages. Additionally, search can be configured to use a language-specific stemmer (if available).

Configuration

Site language

:octicons-file-code-24: Source · :octicons-tools-24: Default: en

You can set the language from mkdocs.yml with:

theme:
  language: en

The following languages are supported:

  • af / Afrikaans
  • ar / Arabic
  • bn / Bengali (Bangla)
  • ca / Catalan
  • cs / Czech
  • da / Danish
  • de / German
  • en / English
  • es / Spanish
  • et / Estonian
  • fa / Persian (Farsi)
  • fi / Finnish
  • fr / French
  • gl / Galician
  • gr / Greek
  • he / Hebrew
  • hi / Hindi
  • hr / Croatian
  • hu / Hungarian
  • id / Indonesian
  • it / Italian
  • ja / Japanese
  • kr / Korean
  • my / Burmese
  • nl / Dutch
  • nn / Norwegian (Nynorsk)
  • no / Norwegian
  • pl / Polish
  • pt / Portuguese
  • ro / Romanian
  • ru / Russian
  • sh / Serbo-Croatian
  • si / Slovenian
  • sk / Slovak
  • sr / Serbian
  • sv / Swedish
  • th / Thai
  • tr / Turkish
  • uk / Ukrainian
  • vi / Vietnamese
  • zh / Chinese (Simplified)
  • zh-Hant / Chinese (Traditional)
  • zh-TW / Chinese (Taiwanese)
  • Add language

:octicons-file-code-24: Source · :octicons-tools-24: Default: best match for theme.language, automatically set

Some languages, like Arabic or Japanese, need dedicated stemmers for search to work properly. Material for MkDocs relies on lunr-languages to provide this functionality. See the search plugin documentation for more information.

Directionality

:octicons-file-code-24: Source · :octicons-tools-24: Default: best match for theme.language, automatically set

While many languages are read ltr (left-to-right), Material for MkDocs also supports rtl (right-to-left) directionality which is inferred from the selected language, but can also be set with:

theme:
  direction: ltr

:material-cursor-default-click-outline: click on a tile to change the directionality:

ltr rtl