Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company’s paid AI, has just been updated to speak 6 new languages, bringing the total up to 48 languages. The new additions are Albanian, Filipino, Icelandic, Malay, Maltese and the Cyrillic variant of Serbian (the Latin script is already included). This significantly expands the global usability of Copilot - the addition of Filipino and Malay alone will benefit hundreds of millions of people who speak those two languages.
Microsoft said that most Copilot features will immediately be available in these languages, however OneDrive and Loop integration will roll out more slowly with the completion expected by the end of the third quarter of calendar year 2025. This new language support will help businesses take advantage of the latest developments in AI and boost their efficiency.
The addition of Serbian (Cyrillic) alongside the previously supported Serbian (Latin script) means users have comprehensive support for both scripts. It demonstrates that Microsoft cares about attention to detail and serving regions with dual script usage. Hopefully, this will extend to supporting lesser spoken languages over time.
With the new additions, Microsoft 365 Copilot currently supports Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French (France), French (Canada), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin script), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh.
With today's update, more users will be able to draft documents, analyze data, and generate presentations in their native languages. The Redmond giant said that it will continue to expand language support in the coming months, without saying which languages it plans to add.
According to the related support page, users who attempt to enter prompts in an unsupported language will get an error message asking you to change your prompt and try again. If you see this, make sure you’re using one of the growing number of supported languages. From today, that means you can use Albanian, Filipino, Icelandic, Malay, Maltese and the Cyrillic variant of Serbian, where you couldn’t before.
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