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# Contact Language

Contact Language represents a language spoken by someone connected to your institution.

- **[Sample Uses for Contact Language](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.k12_contact_language.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Tracking the languages that are spoken by students, staff, and parents—as well as their fluency in each—goes a long way to creating an inclusive environment where people can get support and communication in their preferred languages. Because a Contact can be any type of individual, you have a lot of flexibility in the type of data you track.
- **[Create a Contact Language Record](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.k12_contact_language.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Create a contact language record from the Contact Languages related list on the contact record.

## Sample Uses for Contact Language

Tracking the languages that are spoken by students, staff, and parents—as well as their fluency in each—goes a long way to creating an inclusive environment where people can get support and communication in their preferred languages. Because a Contact can be any type of individual, you have a lot of flexibility in the type of data you track.

- University—Track the primary language for a student, but then identify an intermediate-level language because she's studying it.
- International university—Track an instructor's fluency in multiple languages, for staffing courses taught in multiple countries.
- K-12—Identify the primary language for a student’s guardian to ensure that communication sent to the family is in their preferred language.

## Create a Contact Language Record

Create a contact language record from the Contact Languages related list on the contact record.

Before you create a Contact Language record, create Language records to represent the languages recognized by your institution so you can relate Contacts to them. See [Language](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleview?id=sfdo.k12_language.htm).

1. From the Contact record you’re updating with Language information, click **New** in the Contact Languages related list.
2. Select a language spoken by the Contact, indicate the fluency, and specify whether it’s the Contact’s primary language. Don’t change the Contact name.
    
    ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sfdo-k12_architecture_kit-264-0-0-production-enus/aa53d0d1-adc5-4af6-adb8-c34704f68202/images/icon_note.png)
    
    Note When you specify a language as primary, the language you choose appears in the Primary Language field on the Contact record.
3. Click **Save**.