Languages in Novelium
Language Support in Novelium
Novelium supports more than 30 languages for grammar and spell checking, with regional variants for languages that differ by region. Your language selection affects how Novelium checks your spelling, grammar, and writing style.
Supported Languages
Language | Regional Variants | Spelling & Grammar Check | Intelligent Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Afrikaans | — | ✓ | |
Albanian | — | ✓ | |
Amharic | — | ✓ | |
Arabic | ✓ | ✓ | |
Armenian | — | ✓ | |
Assamese | — | ✓ | |
Asturian | ✓ | — | |
Azerbaijani | — | ✓ | |
Basque | — | ✓ | |
Belarusian | ✓ | ✓ | |
Bengali | — | ✓ | |
Bosnian | — | ✓ | |
Breton | ✓ | — | |
Bulgarian | — | ✓ | |
Catalan | Balearic, Valencian | ✓ | ✓ |
Cebuano | — | ✓ | |
Chinese | Simplified, Traditional | ✓ | ✓ |
Corsican | — | ✓ | |
Crimean Tatar | ✓ | — | |
Croatian | — | ✓ | |
Czech | — | ✓ | |
Danish | ✓ | ✓ | |
Dhivehi | — | ✓ | |
Dutch | Belgium | ✓ | ✓ |
English | Australian, Canadian, GB, New Zealand, SA, US | ✓ | ✓ |
Esperanto | ✓ | ✓ | |
Estonian | — | ✓ | |
Filipino | ✓ | ✓ | |
Finnish | — | ✓ | |
French | Belgium, Canada, Switzerland | ✓ | ✓ |
Frisian | — | ✓ | |
Galician | ✓ | ✓ | |
Georgian | — | ✓ | |
German | Austria, Germany, Swiss | ✓ | ✓ |
Greek | ✓ | ✓ | |
Gujarati | — | ✓ | |
Haitian Creole | — | ✓ | |
Hausa | — | ✓ | |
Hawaiian | — | ✓ | |
Hebrew | — | ✓ | |
Hindi | — | ✓ | |
Hmong | — | ✓ | |
Hungarian | — | ✓ | |
Icelandic | — | ✓ | |
Igbo | — | ✓ | |
Indonesian | — | ✓ | |
Irish | ✓ | ✓ | |
Italian | ✓ | ✓ | |
Japanese | ✓ | ✓ | |
Javanese | — | ✓ | |
Kannada | — | ✓ | |
Kazakh | — | ✓ | |
Khmer | ✓ | ✓ | |
Korean | — | ✓ | |
Krio | — | ✓ | |
Kurdish | — | ✓ | |
Kyrgyz | — | ✓ | |
Lao | — | ✓ | |
Latin | — | ✓ | |
Latvian | — | ✓ | |
Lithuanian | — | ✓ | |
Luxembourgish | — | ✓ | |
Macedonian | — | ✓ | |
Malagasy | — | ✓ | |
Malay | — | ✓ | |
Malayalam | — | ✓ | |
Maltese | — | ✓ | |
Māori | — | ✓ | |
Marathi | — | ✓ | |
Meiteilon | — | ✓ | |
Mongolian | — | ✓ | |
Myanmar | — | ✓ | |
Nepali | — | ✓ | |
Norwegian | Spelling only | ✓ | |
Nyanja | — | ✓ | |
Odia | — | ✓ | |
Pashto | — | ✓ | |
Persian | ✓ | ✓ | |
Polish | ✓ | ✓ | |
Portuguese | Angola, Brazil, Moçambique, Portugal | ✓ | ✓ |
Punjabi | — | ✓ | |
Romanian | ✓ | ✓ | |
Russian | ✓ | ✓ | |
Samoan | — | ✓ | |
Scots Gaelic | — | ✓ | |
Serbian | — | ✓ | |
Sesotho | — | ✓ | |
Shona | — | ✓ | |
Sindhi | — | ✓ | |
Sinhala | — | ✓ | |
Slovak | ✓ | ✓ | |
Slovenian | ✓ | ✓ | |
Somali | — | ✓ | |
Spanish | Voseo | ✓ | ✓ |
Sundanese | — | ✓ | |
Swahili | — | ✓ | |
Swedish | ✓ | ✓ | |
Tajik | — | ✓ | |
Tamil | ✓ | ✓ | |
Telugu | — | ✓ | |
Thai | — | ✓ | |
Turkish | — | ✓ | |
Uyghur | — | ✓ | |
Ukrainian | ✓ | ✓ | |
Urdu | — | ✓ | |
Uzbek | — | ✓ | |
Vietnamese | — | ✓ | |
Welsh | — | ✓ | |
Xhosa | — | ✓ | |
Yiddish | — | ✓ | |
Yoruba | — | ✓ | |
Zulu | — | ✓ |
How to Switch Languages
- Open the Style Sheet panel (the "Style" tab in the right panel)
- Go to the General tab
- Use the Language dropdown to select your base language
- If the language has regional variants, a second dropdown will appear. Select your region
Your language is saved per-project, so different projects can use different languages.
What Does the Language Setting Do?
Spelling
Novelium checks your spelling against the dictionary for your selected language and region. This matters for words that are spelled differently across regions — for example, "color" is correct in US English but would be flagged in UK English (which expects "colour"). Similarly, "gray" vs. "grey", "toward" vs. "towards", and so on.
Grammar
Grammar rules are applied based on your language. Different languages (and variants) have different grammar conventions — punctuation rules, sentence structure, and agreement rules all adapt to your selection.
Writing Style Checks (English only)
When an English variant is selected, Novelium unlocks additional writing style features in the Style Sheet:
- Passive voice detection — flags passive constructions
- Split infinitive detection — catches split infinitives
- Adverb flagging — highlights overused adverbs
- Filter word flagging — catches words like "felt", "noticed", "realized" that can weaken prose
- Weasel word flagging — flags vague intensifiers like "very", "really", "quite"
- Contraction detection — identifies contractions for formal writing
These checks are English-specific and don't appear for other languages. For non-English languages, grammar checking is provided natively through the grammar engine without additional style toggles.
Style Presets
The built-in style presets (Chicago Manual of Style, AP Style, Fiction - General) are currently designed for English. They configure grammar and style settings like Oxford comma rules and fiction-specific flags. Selecting a preset does not change your language — it adjusts rules within your current language.
Auto-Detection
When you create a new project, Novelium automatically detects your browser's language and sets the project language to match. If your browser language isn't supported, it defaults to English (US). You can change it at any time from the Style Sheet panel.
What About the Important Terms List?
Your Important Terms (custom dictionary words, character names, place names, etc.) work the same regardless of language. Any word you add to Important Terms will be accepted by the spell checker no matter which language is selected.
Updated on: 01/03/2026
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