--- title: Joomla Languages Overrides tutorial description: Joomla Languages Overrides tutorial (changing user interface text elements): how to find Language Constant, Debug Language, language constant override files canonical_url: https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/languages-overrides language: en-GB date: 2026-04-26T14:52:17Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/languages-overrides. markdown-tokens: 1561 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/languages-overrides. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. - Type – free website builder (content management system). In the previous [video tutorial](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-multilingual "Video tutorial «Joomla Multilingual (Part 2)»"), we talked about batch processing tools and different settings of the Joomla Language Filter plugin and Language Switcher module. In this video tutorial we will work with Language Overrides to change user interface text elements. ## Video tutorial - Language Overrides – 00:01:39. In [Joomla 6.1](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/whats-new-in-joomla-6-1 "What's new in Joomla 6.1"), you can see which overrides are missing for certain languages. - How to find Language Constant – 00:02:37. - Debug Language – 00:03:12. - Errors in the language file – 00:04:18. - Language constant override files – 00:06:02. Better watch video with «1080p HD» quality. 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I have highlighted the user interface text elements in the image below (for example). ![Joomla Languages Overrides](https://aleksius.com/images/joomla/languages-overrides/joomla-languages-overrides.png) Joomla Languages Overrides In previous [free video tutorials](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/how-to-build-a-website-from-scratch "Joomla tutorial for beginners (part 1). How to build a website from scratch"), we created website on Joomla 4 from scratch. We used only free extensions. We used only free extensions. The result was a business website, which was uploaded to the hosting. **The previously recorded video tutorials for Joomla 4 are almost completely relevant for the current version of Joomla 5.0. The information and video tutorial from this article remain relevant for Joomla 4 as well. At least this is true on January 20, 2024.** Video tutorial recording date – January 20, 2024. Software from video tutorial – Joomla 5.0.2. 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