Hyphenation patterns ==================== The programs latex and pdflatex load hyphenation patterns for the following languages: US English UK English German French Dutch Interlingua If you need other hyphenation patterns you can select them yourself with this command: texconfig hyphen latex This will update the hyphenation patterns for both latex and pdflatex. Below is a list of languages and names that can be used to invoke them. If hyphenation patterns for UK English are loaded, 'english' invokes UK English. Otherwise, it invokes US English. Language Name Acadian acadian Afrikaans afrikaans Bahasa Indonesia bahasa Basque basque Breton breton Bulgarian bulgarian Catalan catalan Croatian croatian Czech czech Danish danish Dutch dutch English english british, UKenglish (UK English) american, USenglish (US English) australian newzealand Esperanto esperanto Estonian estonian Finnish finnish French francais, french, patois frenchb canadian, canadien Galician galician German german, austrian ngerman, naustrian (neue Rechtschreibung) germanb Greek greek polutonikogreek Hebrew hebrew Icelandic icelandic Interlingua interlingua Irish irish Italian italian Latin latin Lowersorbian lowersorbian Hungarian hungarian, magyar Norwegian norsk nynorsk Polish polish Portuguese portuges, portuguese brazil, brazilian Romanian romanian Russian russian Samin samin Scottish scottish Serbian serbian Serbocroatian serbocroatian Slovak slovak Slovene slovene Spanish spanish Swedish swedish Turkish turkish Ukrainian ukrainian Uppersorbian uppersorbian Welsh welsh