To be eligible for Australian community language points you must be fluent in one of the community languages listed below.
‘Fluent’ means you have professional level language skills (written or oral) as evidenced by a qualification (of equivalent standard to an Australian degree) gained from a university where instruction was in one of the listed languages or be accredited with the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) at the professional level (translator/interpreter level).
NAATI can provide tests in a wide range of languages both within Australia and at many overseas locations. Further information is available on the NAATI web site.
| Afrikaans* | Albanian | Arabic/Lebanese | Armenian* | Bangla (Bengali) | Bosnian |
| Bulgarian | Burmese | Chinese – Cantonese | Chinese – Mandarin | Croatian | Czech |
| Danish* | Dutch | Estonian* | Fijian | Filipino (Tagalog) | Finnish |
| French | German | Greek | Hebrew* | Hindi | Hungarian |
| Indonesian | Italian | Japanese | Khmer | Korean | Lao |
| Latvian* | Lithuanian* | Macedonian | Malay | Maltese | Norwegian* |
| Persian | Polish | Portuguese | Punjabi | Romanian | Russian |
| Serbian | Sinhalese | Slovak | Slovene* | Spanish | Swedish* |
| Tamil | Thai | Turkish | Ukrainian | Urdu | Vietnamese |
| Yiddish* |
* Testing by National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) is not available.