Workday Product Translations and Languages

Translation Delivery Cycles and Language Overview on Workday Product Translations

  • Effective from Release 2024R1, in addition to the 2 main releases in March and September, there are 4 Translation Service Updates. Workday product translations are delivered to Production every 2 months, that is, in January, March, May, July, September, and November.
  • Effective from Release 2024R1, in-progress translations are always visible to customers in their Sandbox Preview tenants.
  • Non-English Key Term Changes are communicated for the main releases. Refer to Changes to Non-English Key Terms in Workday 2026R2, which updates soon.

Language Overview

In Release 2026R2, 40 languages are available.

The number of languages and the list of functionalities supported in multiple languages is ever expanding. Language levels differentiate the scope of products and roles offered in different languages today.

Workday Peakon Employee Voice surveys are available in even more languages.

Language Translation Status by Product for Workday 2026R2 Production (as of Sept 19th, 2026)

Please refer to the following updates:

  • The Product Area field was updated to align with ones on the product catalogue on updates for the preview release in August 2026.
  • Please see details on the Release Notes and the attached spreadsheet for each productcby language level.

Languages for Peakon, Paradox, Sana Learn, VNDLY are listed on a separate tab.

See the attached spreadsheet for each product by language level. Languages for Workday Peakon Employee Voice, Workday Paradox, Sana Learn are listed on a separate tab.

Level 1

(Functionality intended for ESS, MSS, Partner, and Administrator roles)

Level 2

(Functionality intended for ESS, MSS, Partner, and Administrator roles)

Level 3

(Functionality intended for ESS, MSS, and Partner roles)

  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Dutch
  • French (Canada)
  • French (France)
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Spanish
  • Arabic
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Indonesian
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Vietnamese
  • Bulgarian
  • Chinese (Hong Kong)
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Estonian
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian 
  • Slovak 
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish (Latin American)
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian

Translation Status by Product 2026R2 Production

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Product

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