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+"""Curated languages offered when a roster has wildcard (any-language) voices.
+
+OpenAI-style multilingual voices speak whatever language the text is in, so
+there is no provider list to enumerate. This is the set the brief form offers
+up front for such providers; it is an offering, not a limit — the API flags
+``allows_custom`` so users can enter any BCP-47 tag beyond it.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+COMMON_LANGUAGES: tuple[str, ...] = (
+    "ar",
+    "bn",
+    "de",
+    "en",
+    "es",
+    "fr",
+    "hi",
+    "id",
+    "it",
+    "ja",
+    "ko",
+    "nl",
+    "pl",
+    "pt",
+    "ru",
+    "sw",
+    "th",
+    "tr",
+    "uk",
+    "vi",
+    "zh",
+)