Language versions and language interface packs in Office 2013
Applies to: Office 2013, Office 365 ProPlus
Summary: Learn about integrating multiple languages in Office 2013 and installing language interface packs.
Audience: IT Professionals
An installation of Office 2013 can include applications or user interface elements in more than one language because some Office 2013 products are not available in every language.
This article describes the language versions that are available for a subset of Office 2013 applications, the Office 2013 applications that will work with Language Interface Packs, and the recommended base languages to install for Office 2013 Language Interface Packs.
Important
This article describes methods of deploying and managing language packs for the Windows Installer-based (MSI) delivery format of Office 2013, which is available for enterprise organizations through volume licensing. If you have an Office subscription and you are deploying Office 365 ProPlus (which uses the Click-to-Run delivery format), see Plan for multilanguage deployment of Click-to-Run-based Office installations.
In this article:
Applications and language availability
Language Interface Packs
Applications and language availability
In some non-English language versions of Office 2013, a specific Office 2013 application may not be available. For example, Access 2013 is not available in Hindi. Therefore, the Hindi language version of Office 2013 is installed in English.
Some Office applications are not available in some languages. Project 2013, Visio 2013, and SharePoint Designer 2013 are available in a subset of languages, as shown in the following table.
Language availability for the 2013 versions of Project, Visio, and SharePoint Designer
| Language | Project 2013 | Visio 2013 | SharePoint Designer 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
Arabic |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Brazilian |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Bulgarian |
no |
no |
yes |
Chinese - Simple |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Chinese - Traditional |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Croatian |
no |
no |
yes |
Czech |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Danish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Dutch |
yes |
yes |
yes |
English |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Finnish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
French |
yes |
yes |
yes |
German |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Greek |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Hebrew |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Hindi |
no |
no |
yes |
Hungarian |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Italian |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Japanese |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Korean |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Norwegian (Bokmål) |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Polish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Portuguese (European) |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Romanian |
no |
no |
yes |
Russian |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Serbian (Latin) |
no |
no |
yes |
Slovak |
yes |
yes |
no |
Slovenian |
yes |
yes |
no |
Spanish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Swedish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Thai |
no |
no |
yes |
Turkish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Ukrainian |
yes |
yes |
no |
Language Interface Packs
For some languages, Microsoft localizes only some Office 2013 applications and releases them as Language Interface Packs (LIPs). These LIPs localize the user interface only, and not the Help content. Administrators must first install a fully localized base language version (see the table later in this section) of Office 2013, and then install the LIP. Users can then work in their preferred language in the following applications and features:
Excel 2013
OneNote 2013
Outlook 2013
PowerPoint 2013
Shared Office features
Word 2013
The remaining Office applications appear in the base Office 2013 installation language. The following table lists the base language for each LIP language.
Base languages available for Language Interface Packs
| LIP language | Base language |
|---|---|
Afrikaans |
English |
Albanian |
English |
Amharic |
English |
Armenian |
English |
Assamese |
English |
Azerbaijani – Latin script |
English |
Bangla (Bangladesh) |
English |
Basque (Basque) |
Spanish |
Belarusian |
Russian |
Bengali - India |
English or Hindi |
Bosnian - Latin script |
English |
Catalan |
Spanish |
Cherokee |
English |
Dari |
English |
Filipino |
English |
Galician |
Spanish |
Georgian |
English |
Gujarati |
English |
Hausa – Latin script |
English |
Icelandic |
English |
Igbo |
English |
Inuktitut – Latin script |
English |
Irish - Gaelic |
English |
isiXhosa |
English |
isiZulu |
English |
Kannada |
English |
Khmer |
English |
Ki'che |
Spanish |
Kinyarwanda |
English |
Kiswahili |
English |
Konkani |
English |
Kurdish |
English |
Krygyz |
Russian |
Luxembourgish |
French |
Macedonian (FYROM) |
English |
Malayalam |
English |
Maltese |
English |
Maori |
English |
Marathi |
English |
Mongolian - Cyrillic script |
English |
Nepali |
English |
Norwegian (Nynorsk) |
Norwegian (Bokmål) |
Odia |
English |
Persian (Farsi) |
English |
Punjabi (India) |
English |
Punjabi (Pakistan) |
English |
Quechua (Peru) |
Spanish |
Scottish Gaelic |
English |
Serbian – Cyrillic script |
Serbian (Latin) |
Serbian – Cyrillic script (Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
English |
Sesotho sa Leboa |
English |
Setswana |
English |
Sindhi (Pakistan) |
English |
Sinhala |
English |
Tajik |
Russian |
Tamil (India) |
English |
Tatar |
Russian |
Telugu |
English |
Turkmen |
Russian |
Urdu |
English |
Uyghur |
Chinese (Simplified) |
Uzbek – Latin script |
English or Russian |
Valencian |
Spanish |
Welsh |
English |
Wolof |
French |
Yoruba |
English |
For information about how to download LIPs, see Office Language Interface Pack (LIP) downloads.
See also
Plan for multilanguage deployment of Office 2013
Customize language setup and settings for Office 2013