To make the languages you add with our app available in your store, you have to add them to your market. There are two scenarios:

To add a language to your store, go to the Languages page in T Lab and click on Add language:

Then, select the desired language and click Add language:

Now that the language is added to your store, you can already start translating your resources.

However, to make sure the language is active on the website, you first have to publish it:

And then, you need to publish it in your Shopify Markets settings

1. With a single market setup, navigate to Shopify Admin -> Markets and open the desired market.
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2. There, click on the "+" next to languages.
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3. Select the domain you would like to assign it to and save.
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That's it! Your language should now be visible on your store, and you can proceed with an AI Translation

With the subfolder setup in your Shopify Markets, you can select different languages as primary for the market. This is best if you would like to use the Shopify Country/Region redirection setting.
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To create a subfolder setup for a market and have a different language than the primary one on the store as the default, here is what you would need to do.
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1. Navigate to Markets and open the market you would like this setup on.
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2. Click on the "+" next to the "Languages"
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3. Click on "New Subfolder".
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4. There you can add the languages that you would like to have on this market by clicking on "Add languages"
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When you add the language, you can click on "Done", or IF you would like to make it the primary language of the market, click on the three dots next to the language and select "Set as default".
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1. Navigate to Markets and open the market you would like this setup on.
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2. Click on the "+" next to the "Languages"
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3. Select the domain or subdomain you've added.
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4. This is it when it comes to the market setup, now the domain is linked to the Shopify Market.

To add multiple languages in the domain/subdomain, click on the drop down of the domain once it has been published in a market and click on the "+".
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This will take you to the Languages option in Shopify. Simply click on the three dots next to the language you would like to assign to the domain and select "Assign to domain."
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Select the domain you would like to assign the language to.

If you would like to assign a different language than the primary one of your store as the default language for a specific domain, select "Set as domain default"
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And select the domain you would like the language to be the default of.
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This is it, the default language of your domain/subdomain should be changed.

Shopify provides a built-in country-based redirection feature that automatically sends visitors to the desired language of your store based on their location/country. Make sure that the following two steps are taken for the country redirection to work:

(you can either use subfolder, separate domain, or separate subdomain configuration for this to work)

Then, we add German to this market, and make it a default language for the country:

That's it. Shopify will now redirect customers from Germany to the German language.

Question: If I remove/delete a language, will all the translations be lost?

Answer: Yes, removing/deleting a language, whether from our app's "Languages" page, or from the Shopify Settings > Languages page, also deletes all existing translations from the Shopify database and this change is irreversible.

However, the following actions do not delete the translations for a given language: