This page is intended to summarize the situation of hyphenation patterns in current TeX distributions, in particular TeX Live. As of today, they are all bundled in a single package called hyph-utf8. If you're a pattern author and wish to update your patterns, please contact the hyph-utf8 package authours through the tex-hyphen mailing list.
The package contains (or at least loads) patterns for the following languages (if patterns for any other language exist and are missing below please let us know):
| name, synonyms | code, patterns | hyphenmin | encoding | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancientgreek | ancientgreek | grc | (1,1) | |
| ibycus | grc-x-ibycus | (2,2) | ||
| Arabic | arabic | ar | (,) | |
| Basque | basque | eu | (2,2) | EC |
| Bulgarian | bulgarian | bg | (2,2) | T2A |
| Catalan | catalan | ca | (2,2) | EC |
| Chinese | pinyin | zh-latn | (1,1) | EC |
| Coptic | coptic | cop | (1,1) | |
| Croatian | croatian | hr | (2,2) | EC |
| Czech | czech | cs | (2,3) | EC |
| Danish | danish | da | (2,2) | EC |
| Dutch | dutch | nl | (2,2) | EC |
| English | english | en-us | (2,3) | ASCII |
| Esperanto | esperanto | eo | (2,2) | IL3 |
| Estonian | estonian | et | (2,3) | EC |
| Farsi | farsi, persian | fa | (,) | |
| Finnish | finnish | fi | (2,2) | EC |
| French | french, patois, francais | fr | (,) | EC |
| Galician | galician | gl | (2,2) | EC |
| German | german | de-1901 | (2,2) | EC |
| ngerman | de-1996 | (2,2) | EC | |
| swissgerman | de-ch-1901 | (2,2) | EC | |
| Greek | monogreek | el-monoton | (1,1) | |
| greek, polygreek | el-polyton | (1,1) | ||
| Hungarian | hungarian | hu | (2,2) | EC |
| Icelandic | icelandic | is | (2,2) | EC |
| Indonesian | indonesian | id | (2,2) | ASCII |
| Interlingua | interlingua | ia | (2,2) | ASCII |
| Irish | irish | ga | (2,3) | EC |
| Italian | italian | it | (2,2) | ASCII |
| Kurmanji | kurmanji | kmr | (2,2) | EC |
| Latin | latin | la | (2,2) | EC |
| Latvian | latvian | lv | (2,2) | L7X |
| Lithuanian | lithuanian | lt | (2,2) | L7X |
| Mongolian | mongolian | mn-cyrl | (2,2) | LMC |
| mongolian2a | mn-cyrl-x-2a | (2,2) | T2A | |
| Norwegian | bokmal, norwegian, norsk | nb | (2,2) | EC |
| nynorsk | nn | (2,2) | EC | |
| Polish | polish | pl | (2,2) | QX |
| Portuguese | portuguese, portuges | pt | (2,3) | EC |
| Romanian | romanian | ro | (2,2) | EC |
| Russian | russian | ru | (2,2) | T2A |
| Sanskrit | sanskrit | sa | (1,5) | |
| Serbian | serbian | sr-latn | (2,2) | EC |
| Slovenian | slovenian, slovene | sl | (2,2) | EC |
| Spanish | spanish, espanol | es | (2,2) | EC |
| Swedish | swedish | sv | (2,2) | EC |
| Turkish | turkish | tr | (2,2) | EC |
| Turkmen | turkmen | tk | (2,2) | EC |
| Ukenglish | ukenglish, british, UKenglish | en-gb | (2,3) | ASCII |
| Ukrainian | ukrainian | uk | (2,2) | T2A |
| Uppersorbian | uppersorbian | hsb | (2,2) | EC |
| Welsh | welsh | cy | (2,3) | EC |