We have 5 languages but not all content is translated so users get mixed content some english which is the language neutral content, and some in their selected language.

The problem with the xml sitemap if there is one is that it includes language neutral content in the language specific sitemap. Won't that cause google to flag that item as duplicate content?

For example you have /foo/bar and then you have /fr/foo/bar and it's not translated - won't that be a red flag? I wonder if we should have an option only to include content in a language sitemap that has been translated.

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lacyrhoades commented

Late followup but you should checkout rel="alternate" here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=189077

This will allow you to have lots of duplicate multi language content without having your page rank hurt.