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Last updated by Ahmed Mamdouh 2 months, 1 week ago.

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January 30, 2026 at 4:45 pm #17779068

Davy

The custom WPML language locale es-US (Spanish – United States) is not mapping correctly in the Crowdin environment.
Standard languages such as es, fr, nl, and de are syncing and translating as expected.

When translation files are sent from WPML to Crowdin, the es-US language does not appear or is not recognized, even though other languages work without issue.

This seems to be related to custom locale mapping, as WPML supports es-US but Crowdin requires explicit language mapping for non-standard locales.

Expected behavior:
es-US should be correctly mapped between WPML and Crowdin and appear as a target language for translation files.

Actual behavior:
es-US is not mapped or available in Crowdin, while other standard languages function correctly.

Notes:

WPML custom locale is configured as es_US

Crowdin language should be es-US

Manual mapping may be required

January 30, 2026 at 9:41 pm #17779535

Bobby
WPML Supporter since 04/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)

Hi there,

I will escalate this to our internal ATE team to create a mapping for es-US.

as it looks like crowdin supports it.

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February 1, 2026 at 1:36 pm #17781324

Davy

Hi there,

Thanks for the update.

In addition to es-US, we’ll need to add support for the following language mappings as well:

Americas: English, Spanish, French

Asia : English (Asia), English (India)

We’ll escalate this to our internal ATE team to review and create the required mappings. Based on the Crowdin documentation, these should be supported.

We’ll keep you posted if we need anything further from your side.

Best regards,
Akash

February 2, 2026 at 8:26 am #17782730

Davy

Hi team, any update on it?

February 2, 2026 at 6:21 pm #17785014

Bobby
WPML Supporter since 04/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)

Thank you, I have updated our team.

As soon as I receive feedback I will reach out and update here.

February 3, 2026 at 9:12 am #17786289

Ahmed Mamdouh
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Arabic (العربية )

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+02:00)

Hello,

This is Ahmed Mamdouh from the translation proxy team and I'll help you with this issue.

Could you please go to WPML -> Languages and click the "Edit languages" link and send me a screenshot from the languages page?

I need to compare the languages configured in WPML and the languages configured in Crowdin to make sure that everything is in its right place.

Best Regards,
Ahmed Mamdouh.

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