Language Identifier

"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 — handy for sorting incoming mail, identifying source text before translating, or just settling a curiosity question.