Im using RankMath and wplml to manage my bilingual website hidden link
for Spanish hidden link - for English hidden link
when checking the sitemaps that Rankmath generates I don't get a separate sitemaps for different languages.
all my content in English are in the same sitemap with the Spanish. for best SEO practice I need separate sitemaps for all my languages. Kindly guide me on how could I get them without using a different domain . Thank you.
and please could you tell me is the hreflang" are working properly? Thank you!
If you don't use that option (and from what I understand, you don't), things are working a little differently so I can confirm that what you are experiencing is the expected behavior.
WPML puts in "hreflang" tags into each page automatically so a new sitemap link for each language is not needed. That is why you don't have the translated links in the sitemap.
You can also see Rankmath's response here: hidden link
I hope that you will find this information helpful.