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SharePoint multilingual sites

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SharePoint multilingual sites

How to design SharePoint sites that serve multiple languages — translation, navigation, and authoring patterns.

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How it works

A default language plus alternative languages per site, with per-page translations and per-language navigation. Users see the site in their preferred language.

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Author workflow

Author writes the default-language page, requests translation to create drafts, a translator or AI draft refines them, then each language publishes independently.

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What isn't translated

Page content and metadata translate. Library and list files don't — plan separate libraries, language metadata, or an external translation service.

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Hub and global navigation

Hub navigation translations are set at the hub level, so a multinational intranet with localised hubs still reads coherently for every language.

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Limitations

Some admin surfaces and web parts stay English-only even on translated sites, and authoring discipline slips if one language is updated without the others.

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When to invest

Worth it for multinational organisations and regulated public-sector content. If everyone speaks the corporate language fluently, monolingual is simpler.

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