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Having the keyword terms in urls in the native language is certainly a better user experience for both searchers and your website visitors. As part of Google's algorithm, keywords in the url do have some influence - this item even appears in the Moz Analytics On-Page Grader tool showing Keyword Usage in URL as Moderately Important. If the IT team can only provide urls in English for now, then it's probably what you'll need to do until you can move to native language words in your urls. From a search engine perspective, as long as your site is setup correctly for international/multilingual, you should be fine. Google has a very helpful post here. Then when your team can do urls in native language, you can appropriately redirect the English language-specific pages to the new urls.

Hi Kurt, I agree, just wanted to get some feedback before i proposed it to the development team. Always good to go in that room with some back-up knowledge. Thanks, Ryan