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Linguistic search features in SharePoint Server

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SharePoint Server use several linguistic features to help improve search relevance.

Linguistic search features

The following table shows the languages that SharePoint Server by default supports for each linguistic feature search uses. The support of these languages doesn't depend on any installed language packs.

Note the following:

  • For dynamic spelling correction to work, you should have at least several thousand medium-sized documents.

  • People search uses fuzzy name matching. Fuzzy name matching includes phonetic matching of names, and can't be disabled.

  • Stemming for Norwegian Nynorsk is done with the Norwegian Bokmål stemmer.

  • Reductive stemming is used for some languages, and can't be disabled. These languages are Arabic, Estonian, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak, and Turkish.

Language Code Document language detection Word breaking Stemming Spelling variants Spelling correction, static Spelling correction, dynamic Decompounding Fuzzy name matching Company name extraction
Afrikaans af Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Albanian sq Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Arabic ar Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No Yes
Armenian hy Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Azerbaijani az Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Bangla bn Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Basque (Basque) eu Yes No No No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Belarusian be Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Bosnian bs Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Breton br Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Bulgarian bg Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Catalan ca Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Chinese Simplified zh-cn Yes Yes No No No No Not applicable No No
Chinese Traditional zh-tw Yes Yes No No No No Not applicable No No
Croatian hr Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Czech cs Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Danish da Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Dutch nl Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
English en Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable Yes Yes
Estonian et Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Faeroese fo Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Farsi fa Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Filipino tl Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Finnish fi Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No
French fr Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Not applicable Yes Yes
Frisian fy Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Galician gl Yes No No No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Georgian ka Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
German de Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Greek el Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Gujarati gu Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Hausa ha Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Hebrew he Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Hindi hi Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Hungarian hu Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Icelandic is Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Indonesian id Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Irish Gaelic ga Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Italian it Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable Yes Yes
Japanese ja Yes Yes No No No No Not applicable Yes Yes
Kannada kn Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Kazakh kk Yes No No No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Kirghiz ky Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Korean ko Yes Yes Yes No No No Not applicable No No
Kurdish ku Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Latin la Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Latvian lv Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Lithuanian lt Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Luxembourgish lb Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Macedonian mk Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Malay ms Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Malayalam ml Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Maltese mt Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Maori mi Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Marathi mr Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Mongolian mn Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Norwegian Bokmål nb Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Norwegian Nynorsk nn Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No Yes
Pashto ps Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Polish pl Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable Yes No
Portuguese pt Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Not applicable Yes Yes
Punjabi pa Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Romanian ro Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Romansh rm Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Russian ru Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable Yes Yes
Sami Nothern se Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Serbian sr Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Slovak sk Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Slovenian sl Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Sorbian wen Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Spanish es Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Not applicable Yes Yes
Swahili sw Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Swedish sv Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No
Tamil ta Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Telugu te Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Thai th Yes Yes No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Turkish tr Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Ukrainian uk Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Not applicable No No
Urdu ur Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Not applicable No No
Uzbek uz Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Vietnamese vi Yes Yes No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Welsh cy Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Yiddish yi Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No
Zulu zu Yes No No No No Yes Not applicable No No