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Syntic models read and write many human languages. These guides cover the details that decide whether a reply sounds native: form of address, number and date formats, script handling and common slips.

LanguageTagsScript
Arabicar, with regional tags such as ar-SA, ar-EG, ar-AEArabic script, right to left
Chinesezh-CN (Simplified, mainland), zh-TW (Traditional, Taiwan), zh-HK (Traditional, Hong Kong)Han characters, left to right, no spaces between words
Frenchfr-FR, fr-CA, fr-BE, fr-CHLatin script, left to right
Germande-DE, de-AT, de-CHLatin script, left to right
Hindihi-INDevanagari script, left to right
Indonesianid-IDLatin script, left to right
Italianit-IT, it-CHLatin script, left to right
Japaneseja-JPKanji, hiragana and katakana, left to right (vertical in print), no spaces
Koreanko-KRHangul, left to right, spaces between words
Persianfa-IR, fa-AF (Dari)Perso-Arabic script, right to left
Portuguesept-BR (Brazil), pt-PT (Portugal)Latin script, left to right
Russianru-RUCyrillic, left to right
Spanishes-ES (Spain), es-MX, es-419 (Latin America), es-AR, es-USLatin script, left to right
Turkishtr-TRLatin script with ç ğ ı İ ö ş ü, left to right

Start with Work in other languages for the rules that apply to all of them.

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