diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5e1c9b3..98c5f77 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - You can now click a button in the search bar to search (you can also still just prss enter, of course).
 - You can now filter searches by instance type.
+- Full-text search across instance descriptions now supports the following languages: arabic, armenian, basque,
+  bengali, brazilian, bulgarian, catalan, cjk (i.e. chinese, japanese, korean), czech, danish, dutch, english, finnish,
+  french, galician, german, greek, hindi, hungarian, indonesian, irish, italian, latvian, lithuanian, norwegian,
+  persian, romanian, russian, sorani, spanish, swedish, turkish, thai.
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/backend/lib/backend/api.ex b/backend/lib/backend/api.ex
index 7ba78b3..400ee95 100644
--- a/backend/lib/backend/api.ex
+++ b/backend/lib/backend/api.ex
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ defmodule Backend.Api do
               "multi_match" => %{
                 "query" => query,
                 "fields" => [
-                  "description.english",
+                  "description.*",
                   "domain.english"
                 ]
               }
diff --git a/backend/priv/elasticsearch/instances.json b/backend/priv/elasticsearch/instances.json
index 714889b..c335ffa 100644
--- a/backend/priv/elasticsearch/instances.json
+++ b/backend/priv/elasticsearch/instances.json
@@ -21,9 +21,137 @@
         "description": {
           "type": "text",
           "fields": {
+            "arabic": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "arabic"
+            },
+            "armenian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "armenian"
+            },
+            "basque": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "basque"
+            },
+            "bengali": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "bengali"
+            },
+            "brazilian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "brazilian"
+            },
+            "bulgarian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "bulgarian"
+            },
+            "catalan": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "catalan"
+            },
+            "cjk": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "cjk"
+            },
+            "czech": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "czech"
+            },
+            "danish": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "danish"
+            },
+            "dutch": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "dutch"
+            },
             "english": {
               "type": "text",
               "analyzer": "english"
+            },
+            "finnish": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "finnish"
+            },
+            "french": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "french"
+            },
+            "galician": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "galician"
+            },
+            "german": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "german"
+            },
+            "greek": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "greek"
+            },
+            "hindi": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "hindi"
+            },
+            "hungarian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "hungarian"
+            },
+            "indonesian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "indonesian"
+            },
+            "irish": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "irish"
+            },
+            "italian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "italian"
+            },
+            "latvian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "latvian"
+            },
+            "lithuanian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "lithuanian"
+            },
+            "norwegian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "norwegian"
+            },
+            "persian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "persian"
+            },
+            "romanian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "romanian"
+            },
+            "russian": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "russian"
+            },
+            "sorani": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "sorani"
+            },
+            "spanish": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "spanish"
+            },
+            "swedish": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "swedish"
+            },
+            "turkish": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "turkish"
+            },
+            "thai": {
+              "type": "text",
+              "analyzer": "thai"
             }
           }
         },