Language support for Language Detection

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2024-11-21

Use this article to learn which natural languages that language detection supports.

The Language Detection feature can detect a wide range of languages, variants, dialects, and some regional/cultural languages, and return detected languages with their name and code. The returned language code parameters conform to BCP-47 standard with most of them conforming to ISO-639-1 identifiers.

If you have content expressed in a less frequently used language, you can try Language Detection to see if it returns a code. The response for languages that can't be detected is unknown.

Languages supported by Language Detection

Language	Language Code	Supported Script Code
Afrikaans	`af`	`Latn`
Albanian	`sq`	`Latn`
Amharic	`am`	`Ethi`
Arabic	`ar`	`Arab`
Armenian	`hy`	`Armn`
Assamese	`as`	`Beng`, `Latn`
Azerbaijani	`az`	`Latn`
Bashkir	`ba`	`Cyrl`
Basque	`eu`	`Latn`
Belarusian	`be`	`Cyrl`
Bengali	`bn`	`Beng`, `Latn`
Bhojpuri	`bho`	`Deva`
Bodo	`brx`	`Deva`
Bosnian	`bs`	`Latn`
Bulgarian	`bg`	`Cyrl`
Burmese	`my`	`Mymr`
Catalan	`ca`	`Latn`
Central Khmer	`km`	`Khmr`
Checheni	`ce`	`Cyrl`
Chhattisgarhi	`hne`	`Deva`
Chinese Literal	`lzh`	`Hani`
Chinese Simplified	`zh_chs`	`Hans`
Chinese Traditional	`zh_cht`	`Hant`
Chuvash	`cv`	`Cyrl`
Corsican	`co`	`Latn`
Croatian	`hr`	`Latn`
Czech	`cs`	`Latn`
Danish	`da`	`Latn`
Dari	`prs`	`Arab`
Divehi	`dv`	`Thaa`
Dogri	`dgo`	`Deva`
Dutch	`nl`	`Latn`
English	`en`	`Latn`
Esperanto	`eo`	`Latn`
Estonian	`et`	`Latn`
Faroese	`fo`	`Latn`
Fijian	`fj`	`Latn`
Finnish	`fi`	`Latn`
French	`fr`	`Latn`
Galician	`gl`	`Latn`
Georgian	`ka`	`Gujr`
German	`de`	`Latn`
Greek	`el`	`Grek`
Gujarati	`gu`	`Gujr`, `Latn`
Haitian	`ht`	`Latn`
Hausa	`ha`	`Latn`
Hebrew	`he`	`Hebr`
Hindi	`hi`	`Deva`, `Latn`
Hmong Daw	`mww`	`Latn`
Hungarian	`hu`	`Latn`
Icelandic	`is`	`Latn`
Igbo	`ig`	`Latn`
Indonesian	`id`	`Latn`
Inuktitut	`iu`	`Cans`, `Latn`
Inuinnaqtun	`ikt`	`Latn`
Irish	`ga`	`Latn`
Italian	`it`	`Latn`
Japanese	`ja`	`Jpan`
Javanese	`jv`	`Latn`
Kannada	`kn`	`Knda`, `Latn`
Kashmiri	`ks`	`Arab`, `Deva`, `Shrd`
Kazakh	`kk`	`Cyrl`
Kinyarwanda	`rw`	`Latn`
Kirghiz	`ky`	`Cyrl`
Konkani	`gom`	`Deva`
Korean	`ko`	`Hang`
Kurdish	`ku`	`Arab`
Kurdish (Northern)	`kmr`	`Latn`
Lao	`lo`	`Laoo`
Latin	`la`	`Latn`
Latvian	`lv`	`Latn`
Lithuanian	`lt`	`Latn`
Lower Siberian	`dsb`	`Latn`
Luxembourgish	`lb`	`Latn`
Macedonian	`mk`	`Cyrl`
Maithili	`mai`	`Deva`
Malagasy	`mg`	`Latn`
Malay	`ms`	`Latn`
Malayalam	`ml`	`Mlym`, `Latn`
Maltese	`mt`	`Latn`
Maori	`mi`	`Latn`
Marathi	`mr`	`Deva`, `Latn`
Meitei	`mni`	`Mtei`
Mongolian	`mn`	`Cyrl`, `Mong`
Nepali	`ne`	`Deva`
Norwegian	`no`	`Latn`
Norwegian Nynorsk	`nn`	`Latn`
Odia	`or`	`Orya`, `Latn`
Pashto	`ps`	`Arab`
Persian	`fa`	`Arab`
Polish	`pl`	`Latn`
Portuguese	`pt`	`Latn`
Punjabi	`pa`	`Guru`, `Latn`
Queretaro Otomi	`otq`	`Latn`
Romanian	`ro`	`Latn`
Russian	`ru`	`Cyrl`
Samoan	`sm`	`Latn`
Sanscrit	`sa`	`Deva`
Santali	`sat`	`Olck`
Serbian	`sr`	`Latn`, `Cyrl`
Shona	`sn`	`Latn`
Sindhi	`sd`	`Arab`
Sinhala	`si`	`Sinh`
Slovak	`sk`	`Latn`
Slovenian	`sl`	`Latn`
Somali	`so`	`Latn`
Spanish	`es`	`Latn`
Sundanese	`su`	`Latn`
Swahili	`sw`	`Latn`
Swedish	`sv`	`Latn`
Tagalog	`tl`	`Latn`
Tahitian	`ty`	`Latn`
Tajik	`tg`	`Cyrl`
Tamil	`ta`	`Taml`, `Latn`
Tatar	`tt`	`Cyrl`
Telugu	`te`	`Telu`, `Latn`
Thai	`th`	`Thai`
Tibetan	`bo`	`Tibt`
Tigrinya	`ti`	`Ethi`
Tongan	`to`	`Latn`
Turkish	`tr`	`Latn`
Turkmen	`tk`	`Latn`
Upper Sorbian	`hsb`	`Latn`
Uyghur	`ug`	`Arab`
Ukrainian	`uk`	`Latn`
Urdu	`ur`	`Arab`, `Latn`
Uzbek	`uz`	`Latn`
Vietnamese	`vi`	`Latn`
Welsh	`cy`	`Latn`
Xhosa	`xh`	`Latn`
Yiddish	`yi`	`Hebr`
Yoruba	`yo`	`Latn`
Yucatec Maya	`yua`	`Latn`
Zulu	`zu`	`Latn`

Romanized Indic Languages supported by Language Detection

Language	Language Code
Assamese	`as`
Bengali	`bn`
Gujarati	`gu`
Hindi	`hi`
Kannada	`kn`
Malayalam	`ml`
Marathi	`mr`
Odia	`or`
Punjabi	`pa`
Tamil	`ta`
Telugu	`te`
Urdu	`ur`

Script detection

Language	Script code	Scripts
Assamese	`as`	`Latn`, `Beng`
Bengali	`bn`	`Latn`, `Beng`
Gujarati	`gu`	`Latn`, `Gujr`
Hindi	`hi`	`Latn`, `Deva`
Kannada	`kn`	`Latn`, `Knda`
Malayalam	`ml`	`Latn`, `Mlym`
Marathi	`mr`	`Latn`, `Deva`
Odia	`or`	`Latn`, `Orya`
Punjabi	`pa`	`Latn`, `Guru`
Tamil	`ta`	`Latn`, `Taml`
Telugu	`te`	`Latn`, `Telu`
Urdu	`ur`	`Latn`, `Arab`
Tatar	`tt`	`Latn`, `Cyrl`
Serbian	`sr`	`Latn`, `Cyrl`
Inuktitut	`iu`	`Latn`, `Cans`

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