Language support
The following languages are available for download: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (European), German, Greek, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European), Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai and Vietnamese. Swype comes with English, Spanish, French Canadian and Brazilian Portuguese languages pre-installed.
Beta Labs notes:
Once the initial [Swype] package is installed, you can download and install additional languages. You still need to ensure that the main application is installed first, and that the phone's Writing Language fits with one of Swype's supported languages. Since Swype has its own language selection, we recommend you set the phone's Writing Language to English, then use Swype to change the language dictionary in use for writing.
More details are available at Nokia Beta Labs.
Additional language support is very important as it significantly increases the number of people able to make use of Swype as a text entry system. The significance of the availability of software or functionality in a native language is often under estimated. In general developers will be able to reach more users through localisation (translations) than by adding additional features.
Updated version for S60 5th Edition
The update version of Swype for S60 5th Edition is a release candidate, which means it is likely the last beta release. Once final quality control checks have been made it will be published on the Ovi Store. The updated version fixes a number of bugs, allows for easier downloading of additional languages and improves performance.
More details are available at Nokia Beta Labs.