---
title: "openemail.languages"
description: "Every method in this namespace: its signature, its parameters, what it returns and an example."
url: "https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/languages"
area: "Python"
category: "Reference"
---

# openemail.languages

Every method in this namespace: its signature, its parameters, what it returns and an example.

## Methods

Every language a translated send or preview accepts.

### `languages.list()`

List every language a message can be sent in

```python
def list(
    *,
    api_key: str | None = None,
    timeout: float | None = None,
) -> builtins.list[LanguageResource]
```

Returns the whole language table in one response, with no cursor. It sits behind a key like every other endpoint but needs no scope, because it names no data belonging to anybody. The table is around two hundred rows and changes a handful of times a year, so fetch it once and keep it.

The order is meaningful. The languages people are most likely to be emailed in come first, then regional variants, then the rest by region. A picker should render the rows in the order they arrive until somebody types, then search `native`, `label` and `code` together. Show `native` first, since it is the word someone looking for their own language is scanning for, and never show `flag` on its own: a flag names a country, not a language.

Any row's `code`, `label` or `native` is accepted as `'to'` in the `translate` dict of `emails.send` and in the body of `emails.translate`. The package also ships the same table as `LANGUAGES`, with `resolve_language` to look a code, an English name or an endonym up in it, which is useful before the first request, while this call returns the server's current rows.

**Parameters**

- `api_key` (`str`): Authenticates this call with a different key.
- `timeout` (`float`): Seconds this call may take, the response included, before it raises `OpenEmailNetworkError` with `is_timeout`. It overrides the client's `timeout` for this call, and `0` turns the limit off.

**Returns**

`list[LanguageResource]`, each a dict with `code` (BCP-47), `label` (English name), `native` (endonym), `flag` and `rtl`.

**Example**

```python
from openemail import openemail

languages = openemail.languages.list()
by_code = {language['code']: language for language in languages}

german = by_code.get('de')
right_to_left = [language['native'] for language in languages if language['rtl']]

print(german['native'] if german else 'German is not offered', len(right_to_left))
```

**Notes**

- `rtl` marks right-to-left targets. A translated body for one of them is wrapped in `dir="rtl"` before it is sent.
- The bundled `LANGUAGES` table can lag the server by however old your installed package is, so prefer this call when a newly added language matters.

Also available in: API [`GET /languages`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/languages#get-languages); TypeScript [`languages.list()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/languages#list); Ruby [`languages.list`](https://openemail.uk/docs/ruby/reference/languages#list); CLI [`openemail languages list`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/languages#languages-list).