Add language codes to employee profiles

Add a language code to each employee's profile to set their preferred language for the general Culture Amp interface. You activate a language for your account first, then add its code to employee profiles through your HRIS integration or a CSV upload.

A language code is a short identifier, like fr for French or pt-BR for Brazilian Portuguese, that sets an employee's preferred language for the general Culture Amp interface. Every employee can use English (US) by default, and adding a code lets them use a different language instead.

Adding this code doesn't automatically translate every part of Culture Amp. Engagement surveys, Performance review cycles, and other product modules each have their own language configuration, separate from an employee's profile setting.

For which languages each product translates, see Check supported languages and product coverage.

Before you can assign a language to anyone's profile, make sure it's active for your account.

Once a language is active for your account, add its code to each employee's profile through your HRIS integration or a CSV upload.

If you manage employee data through an HRIS integration, add or update the Language field there with each employee's code, then sync as usual.

Go to Settings > Users, select an employee, then check the Preferred language field under Personal information.

Adding a language code sets someone's general interface language, but it doesn't automatically turn that language on inside Engagement surveys or Performance review cycles. Each works independently.

Each survey has its own list of available languages, set when you configure the survey rather than inherited from an employee's profile. A participant sees the survey in their preferred language only if that language is on the survey's list.

See Set up a multilingual Engagement survey to add or change a survey's languages.

Each review cycle has its own language list, chosen when you set up the cycle. An employee sees the cycle in their preferred language only if that language was included in the cycle.

See Set up a multilingual Performance review cycle to add languages to a cycle.

Use one of the codes below whenever you set a language, in an HRIS field, a CSV column, or a Support request.

If your account was set up with Tamil before September 2026, confirm which variant it uses with Support before relying on this code. "Check supported languages and product coverage" covers this under "Check which Tamil variant your account uses."

A small number of other languages exist beyond this list. If you don't see your language here, contact Culture Amp Support to check whether it can be added for your account.

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