Fact · Transcription
The language table in Whisper's source code includes Chinese, Korean and Japanese, each with its own language code.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“"zh": "chinese", "de": "german", "es": "spanish", "ru": "russian", "ko": "korean", "fr": "french", "ja": "japanese",”
whisper/tokenizer.py: the LANGUAGES table (openai/whisper), OpenAI, GitHub, openai/whisper, 2026, LANGUAGES dictionary in tokenizer.py.
Open the original- What it measures
- The table is the list of languages Whisper's tokenizer knows. Chinese, Korean and Japanese are among the languages the model was trained on.