We are adding support for non-english input languages to the search endpoint.

It is currently in beta, so access is restricted to certain API applications. To access the beta, email api@unsplash.com with your application ID.

Currently we are adding support for 108 languages:

ISO 639-1 Language Code Language
af Afrikaans
am Amharic
ar Arabic
az Azerbaijani
be Belarusian
bg Bulgarian
bn Bengali
bs Bosnian
ca Catalan
ceb Cebuano
co Corsican
cs Czech
cy Welsh
da Danish
de German
el Greek
en English
eo Esperanto
es Spanish
et Estonian
eu Basque
fa Persian
fi Finnish
fr French
fy Frisian
ga Irish
gd Scots Gaelic
gl Galician
gu Gujarati
ha Hausa
haw Hawaiian
hi Hindi
hmn Hmong
hr Croatian
ht Haitian Creole
hu Hungarian
hy Armenian
id Indonesian
ig Igbo
is Icelandic
it Italian
iw Hebrew
ja Japanese
jw Javanese
ka Georgian
kk Kazakh
km Khmer
kn Kannada
ko Korean
ku Kurdish
ky Kyrgyz
la Latin
lb Luxembourgish
lo Lao
lt Lithuanian
lv Latvian
mg Malagasy
mi Maori
mk Macedonian
ml Malayalam
mn Mongolian
mr Marathi
ms Malay
mt Maltese
my Myanmar
ne Nepali
nl Dutch
no Norwegian
ny Nyanja
or Oriya
pa Punjabi
pl Polish
ps Pashto
pt Portuguese
ro Romanian
ru Russian
rw Kinyarwanda
sd Sindhi
si Sinhala
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
sm Samoan
sn Shona
so Somali
sq Albanian
sr Serbian
st Sesotho
su Sundanese
sv Swedish
sw Swahili
ta Tamil
te Telugu
tg Tajik
th Thai
tk Turkmen
tl Filipino
tr Turkish
tt Tatar
ug Uighur
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek
vi Vietnamese
xh Xhosa
yi Yiddish
yo Yoruba
zh Chinese Simplified
zh-TW Chinese Traditional
zu Zulu

For more information, see the API documentation.