Language support for Language Detection

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
Afrikaans	af
Albanian	sq
Amharic	am
Arabic	ar
Armenian	hy
Assamese	as
Azerbaijani	az
Bashkir	ba
Basque	eu
Belarusian	be
Bengali	bn
Bosnian	bs
Bulgarian	bg
Burmese	my
Catalan	ca
Central Khmer	km
Chinese	zh
Chinese Simplified	zh_chs
Chinese Traditional	zh_cht
Chuvash	cv
Corsican	co
Croatian	hr
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Dari	prs
Divehi	dv
Dutch	nl
English	en
Esperanto	eo
Estonian	et
Faroese	fo
Fijian	fj
Finnish	fi
French	fr
Galician	gl
Georgian	ka
German	de
Greek	el
Gujarati	gu
Haitian	ht
Hausa	ha
Hebrew	he
Hindi	hi
Hmong Daw	mww
Hungarian	hu
Icelandic	is
Igbo	ig
Indonesian	id
Inuktitut	iu
Irish	ga
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Javanese	jv
Kannada	kn
Kazakh	kk
Kinyarwanda	rw
Kirghiz	ky
Korean	ko
Kurdish	ku
Lao	lo
Latin	la
Latvian	lv
Lithuanian	lt
Luxembourgish	lb
Macedonian	mk
Malagasy	mg
Malay	ms
Malayalam	ml
Maltese	mt
Maori	mi
Marathi	mr
Mongolian	mn
Nepali	ne
Norwegian	no
Norwegian Nynorsk	nn
Odia	or
Pasht	ps
Persian	fa
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Punjabi	pa
Queretaro Otomi	otq
Romanian	ro
Russian	ru
Samoan	sm
Serbian	sr
Shona	sn
Sindhi	sd
Sinhala	si
Slovak	sk
Slovenian	sl
Somali	so
Spanish	es
Sundanese	su
Swahili	sw
Swedish	sv
Tagalog	tl
Tahitian	ty
Tajik	tg
Tamil	ta
Tatar	tt
Telugu	te
Thai	th
Tibetan	bo
Tigrinya	ti
Tongan	to
Turkish	tr
Turkmen	tk
Upper Sorbian	hsb
Uyghur	ug
Ukrainian	uk
Urdu	ur
Uzbek	uz
Vietnamese	vi
Welsh	cy
Xhosa	xh
Yiddish	yi
Yoruba	yo
Yucatec Maya	yua
Zulu	zu

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
Bengali (Bengali-Assamese)	as	Latn, Beng
Bengali (Bangla)	bn	Latn, Beng
Gujarati	gu	Latn, Gujr
Hindi	hi	Latn, Deva
Kannada	kn	Latn, Knda
Malayalam	ml	Latn, Mlym
Marathi	mr	Latn, Deva
Oriya	or	Latn, Orya
Gurmukhi	pa	Latn, Guru
Tamil	ta	Latn, Taml
Telugu	te	Latn, Telu
Arabic	ur	Latn, Arab
Cyrillic	tt	Latn, Cyrl
Serbian sr	Latn, Cyrl
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics	iu	Latn, Cans

Next steps

Language detection overview