Language Identifier

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"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

A focused tool that answers "What language is this?" for text snippets across more than 100 languages. The paid edition removes all ads and the daily usage cap, runs fully offline, and surfaces a confidence score for short or ambiguous input.