# General Translation Integrations: Locales
URL: https://generaltranslation.com/en-US/docs/integrations/mintlify/reference/locales.mdx
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title: Locales 
description: Reference for the language codes Mintlify supports and how General Translation locales map onto them. Reference for Mintlify locale handling.

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# Locales

Mintlify accepts a fixed set of language codes in its navigation. General Translation maps the locales you choose in the Dashboard onto those codes, and only locales that map to a supported Mintlify language can be used.

## Source and target locales [#source-target]

- Your **default locale** is the language your docs are written in. It is the source for every translation.
- Your **target locales** are the languages to translate into.

Both the default locale and every target locale must map to a supported Mintlify language. A locale that cannot be mapped is rejected during setup rather than silently falling back.

## Supported Mintlify languages [#supported]

Mintlify supports these language codes:


| Code      | Language              | Code | Language   |
| --------- | --------------------- | ---- | ---------- |
| `en`      | English               | `nl` | Dutch      |
| `zh`      | Chinese               | `sv` | Swedish    |
| `zh-Hans` | Chinese (Simplified)  | `no` | Norwegian  |
| `zh-Hant` | Chinese (Traditional) | `lv` | Latvian    |
| `es`      | Spanish               | `uk` | Ukrainian  |
| `fr`      | French                | `vi` | Vietnamese |
| `fr-CA`   | French (Canada)       | `id` | Indonesian |
| `pt`      | Portuguese            | `pl` | Polish     |
| `pt-BR`   | Portuguese (Brazil)   | `cs` | Czech      |
| `de`      | German                | `ro` | Romanian   |
| `ja`      | Japanese              | `tr` | Turkish    |
| `ko`      | Korean                | `uz` | Uzbek      |
| `it`      | Italian               | `hi` | Hindi      |
| `ru`      | Russian               | `ar` | Arabic     |
|           |                       | `he` | Hebrew     |




## Locale mapping [#mapping]

When you select a General Translation locale, it is normalized to the closest supported Mintlify code. Regional variants collapse to their base language unless Mintlify supports the variant directly.


| General Translation locale | Mintlify code |
| -------------------------- | ------------- |
| `en-US`, `en-GB`           | `en`          |
| `zh-CN`                    | `zh-Hans`     |
| `zh-TW`, `zh-HK`           | `zh-Hant`     |
| `fr-FR`, `fr-BE`           | `fr`          |
| `fr-CA`                    | `fr-CA`       |
| `pt-PT`                    | `pt`          |
| `pt-BR`                    | `pt-BR`       |
| `es-MX`, `es-ES`           | `es`          |
| `de-AT`, `de-CH`           | `de`          |


A locale that does not map to any supported Mintlify language is treated as invalid, so it cannot be selected as a source or target.

To learn more about locale codes in General Translation, see [Understanding locale codes](/docs/platform/core/guides/locale-codes) and the [supported locales reference](/docs/platform/dashboard/reference/supported-locales).