ESCO languages

ESCO is bridging language barriers by providing terms for each concept in all languages covered by the classification.

Languages covered in ESCO v1

ESCO v1 is available in the 26 European languages and Arabic. The full list of languages covered by ESCO is:

*) In addition to British-English, there is also a file with US-English spelling available.

The following table summarises in which languages the content of ESCO v1 is available:

ESCO data/metadata element	bg	es	cs	da	de	et	el	en	fr	ga	hr	it	lv	lt	hu	mt	nl	pl	pt	ro	sk	sl	fi	sv	is	no	ar
Occupation PT	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Occupation NPT	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖	✖	✖
Occupation Description	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖
Occupation Scope note	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖
ISCO-08 group labels	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖	✔	✖
Knowledge, skills and competences PT	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Knowledge, skills and competences NPT	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖	✖	✖
Knowledge, skills and competences Description	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖
Knowledge, skills and competences Scope note	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖
Qualification titles	In the language provided by the Member State/awarding body
Qualification learning outcome descriptions	In the language provided by the Member State/awarding body

The first public version, ESCO v0, was published in October 2013 in the official languages of the European Union, except Irish and Croatian.