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Text Search Languages

The text index and the $text operator may be used with the following languages, and accepts either the two-letter ISO 639-1 language code or the long form of the language name:

Language Name
ISO 639-1 (Two letter codes)

danish

da

dutch

nl

english

en

finnish

fi

french

fr

german

de

hungarian

hu

italian

it

norwegian

nb

portuguese

pt

romanian

ro

russian

ru

spanish

es

swedish

sv

turkish

tr

If you specify a language value of "none", then the text search uses simple tokenization with no list of stop words and no stemming.

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