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What languages Amazon Aelxa Skill supports? How to select the region and language of Alexa Skill?

Last Updated on：2023-01-30 09:53:02

Currently Alexa Skill supports the following 16 languages. The choice of language will determine which users can use your skill and will determine whether you can do WWA（Works With Alexa） certification.

We strongly suggest that you select which languages your skill wants to support based on the sales country of your product, so as to avoid the situation that you cannot do WWA certification service or customers cannot search for skill or charging for adding languages.

For example, you can select all Spanish languages if you want to sell your products in Spain.

16 languages

English(US)/English(CA)/English(IN)/English(AU)/English(UK)

German(DE)

Italian(IT)

French(CA)/French(FR)

Spanish(ES)/Spanish(MX)/Spanish(US)

Portuguese(BR)

Japanese(JP)

Hindi(IN)

Arabic(SA)

The option determines the countries and regions in which your customers can enable and use your custom skill. Your customers can access all skills that meet all of the following conditions:

You distribute your skill in the customers' country or region.
Your skill supports the language your customers selected for their Alexa-enabled devices.
Your skill supports the primary language for the country or region in which the customers registered their devices. This support determines whether the skill is available in the skills store; for example:

A skill must have an English (US) version to be available to customers who registered their devices with the .com site.
A skill must have a German version to be available to customers who registered their devices with the .de site.

Important: Customers can choose the language they want to use for their devices, and they aren't constrained by their location when choosing the language. For example, a customer that uses a .de account can choose to use a different language from German, such as English (UK), for their Alexa-enabled devices. However, changing the language doesn't affect the skills catalog available to the .de account in the skills store. Therefore, to make a skill available to customers who use .de accounts, you must include a German version of the skill in the skills store.

Example: Worldwide distribution with one language

You choose to distribute your custom skill in all countries and regions where Amazon distributes skills. You configure the skill with justEnglish (UK)and no other languages. When you choose this configuration, you get the following result:

Your skill is available in the skills store for all countries and regions where English (UK) is the primary language.
Your skill can be used by customers in those countries and regions who have set their devices to use English (UK).
Your skill isn't available to customers anywhere in the world who have selected German, English (US), or any other language for their devices.