Language Identifier

Identifies the language of your text: What language is this?

"What language is this?"

Type (or paste) text into this app to answer the question "What language is this?". This app identifies the language in which your text is written—for example, English, Greek, or Hungarian.

This app uses a probabilistic model for identifying the natural language in which the given text is written.

★ Identifies many major languages, several of which are not yet supported by translation apps

★ Shows confidence scores for ambiguous text (tap the statistics button)

★ Works offline: An internet connection is not required

Note:

• This app works only with text. Speech or photos will need to be transcribed into text beforehand.

• This app can identify major languages, but there are many, many more languages that it cannot identify. Please use your own good judgment. Coverage will be improved incrementally in future updates.

• Romanized text can be identified for Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, and Russian

• Input text is limited to 200 characters because longer text does not result in an improvement in identification

Scripts recognized: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ge'ez, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu

Languages identified:

Afrikaans

Albanian

Amharic

Arabic

Armenian

Azerbaijani

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Burmese

Catalan

Cebuano

Chinese

Corsican

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Esperanto

Estonian

Filipino

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Gujarati

Haitian

Hausa

Hawaiian

Hebrew

Hindi

Hmong

Hungarian

Icelandic

Igbo

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Javanese

Kannada

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Kurdish

Kyrgyz

Lao

Latin

Latvian

Lithuanian

Luxembourgish

Macedonian

Malagasy

Malay

Malayalam

Maltese

Maori

Marathi

Mongolian

Nepali

Norwegian

Nyanja

Pashto

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

Romanian

Russian

Samoan

Scots Gaelic

Serbian

Sesotho

Shona

Sindhi

Sinhala

Slovak

Slovenian

Somali

Spanish

Sundanese

Swahili

Swedish

Tajik

Tamil

Telugu

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Uzbek

Vietnamese

Welsh

Western Frisian

Xhosa

Yiddish

Yoruba

Zulu