Language Identification

Find out the language the easy way!

Once you know what language a piece of text is in, you can easily get it translated either online for free, or by a professional translator.

Computers are very good at language identification. Few humans know more than ten languages, but a software package can be trained to identify many more languages than that in a fraction of the time. They do however have their limitations.

Try the easy method first! That is the golden rule. Even if none of the computer programs can identify the exact language, they will usually be able to find a similar language for you. This will make an excellent place for you to continue your search. Once you know roughly what language it is, you can find a professional translation company who have specialist translators for that language type. They should be able to identify the exact language and carry out the translation work for you.

FREE Language Identification Tools

Unbelievably, the best tools are completely free to use! For best results, feed them as much text as you possibly can. If you are not sure whether there is more than one language, it is better to split the text and try each part separately. The software is extremely clever, but you can still confuse it by feeding in more than one language at a time.

By far the best on the web is the TextCat Language Guesser. It does not look like a cutting-edge revolutionary tool, but it is! TextCat can identify more languages than its competitors, and it is completely free to use. Try this one first!

Get a second opinion! There is no harm in double checking, so try one or two more of the other resources as well. Some of them identify languages that TextCat does not.

If you still can not identify the language, it is time to ask a professional translation company to help!

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