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Language analyzer

OpenSearch supports the following language values with the analyzer option: arabic, armenian, basque, bengali, brazilian, bulgarian, catalan, czech, danish, dutch, english, estonian, finnish, french, galician, german, greek, hindi, hungarian, indonesian, irish, italian, latvian, lithuanian, norwegian, persian, portuguese, romanian, russian, sorani, spanish, swedish, turkish, and thai.

To use the analyzer when you map an index, specify the value within your query. For example, to map your index with the French language analyzer, specify the french value for the analyzer field:

  1.  "analyzer": "french"

Example request

The following query specifies the french language analyzer for the index my-index:

  1. PUT my-index
  2. {
  3.   "mappings": {
  4.     "properties": {
  5.       "text": { 
  6.         "type": "text",
  7.         "fields": {
  8.           "french": { 
  9.             "type": "text",
  10.             "analyzer": "french"
  11.           }
  12.         }
  13.       }
  14.     }
  15.   }
  16. }