Language support for Language Detection
Use this article to learn which natural languages are supported by Language Detection.
Note
Languages are added as new model versions are released. The current model version for Language Detection is 2022-10-01. However, to detect Japanese in better quality, we recommend you use the previous version 2021-11-20.
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 cannot be detected is unknown.
Languages supported by Language Detection
| Language | Language Code | Starting with model version: |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af |
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| Albanian | sq |
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| Amharic | am |
2021-01-05 |
| Arabic | ar |
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| Armenian | hy |
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| Assamese | as |
2021-01-05 |
| Azerbaijani | az |
2021-01-05 |
| Basque | eu |
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| Belarusian | be |
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| Bengali | bn |
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| Bosnian | bs |
2020-09-01 |
| Bulgarian | bg |
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| Burmese | my |
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| Catalan | ca |
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| Central Khmer | km |
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| Chinese | zh |
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| Chinese Simplified | zh_chs |
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| Chinese Traditional | zh_cht |
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| Corsican | co |
2021-01-05 |
| Croatian | hr |
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| Czech | cs |
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| Danish | da |
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| Dari | prs |
2020-09-01 |
| Divehi | dv |
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| Dutch | nl |
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| English | en |
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| Esperanto | eo |
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| Estonian | et |
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| Fijian | fj |
2020-09-01 |
| Finnish | fi |
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| French | fr |
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| Galician | gl |
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| Georgian | ka |
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| German | de |
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| Greek | el |
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| Gujarati | gu |
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| Haitian | ht |
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| Hausa | ha |
2021-01-05 |
| Hebrew | he |
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| Hindi | hi |
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| Hmong Daw | mww |
2020-09-01 |
| Hungarian | hu |
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| Icelandic | is |
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| Igbo | ig |
2021-01-05 |
| Indonesian | id |
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| Inuktitut | iu |
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| Irish | ga |
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| Italian | it |
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| Japanese | ja |
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| Javanese | jv |
2021-01-05 |
| Kannada | kn |
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| Kazakh | kk |
2020-09-01 |
| Kinyarwanda | rw |
2021-01-05 |
| Kirghiz | ky |
2021-01-05 |
| Korean | ko |
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| Kurdish | ku |
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| Lao | lo |
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| Latin | la |
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| Latvian | lv |
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| Lithuanian | lt |
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| Luxembourgish | lb |
2021-01-05 |
| Macedonian | mk |
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| Malagasy | mg |
2020-09-01 |
| Malay | ms |
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| Malayalam | ml |
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| Maltese | mt |
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| Maori | mi |
2020-09-01 |
| Marathi | mr |
2020-09-01 |
| Mongolian | mn |
2021-01-05 |
| Nepali | ne |
2021-01-05 |
| Norwegian | no |
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| Norwegian Nynorsk | nn |
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| Oriya | or |
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| Pasht | ps |
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| Persian | fa |
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| Polish | pl |
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| Portuguese | pt |
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| Punjabi | pa |
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| Queretaro Otomi | otq |
2020-09-01 |
| Romanian | ro |
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| Russian | ru |
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| Samoan | sm |
2020-09-01 |
| Serbian | sr |
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| Shona | sn |
2021-01-05 |
| Sindhi | sd |
2021-01-05 |
| Sinhala | si |
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| Slovak | sk |
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| Slovenian | sl |
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| Somali | so |
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| Spanish | es |
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| Sundanese | su |
2021-01-05 |
| Swahili | sw |
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| Swedish | sv |
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| Tagalog | tl |
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| Tahitian | ty |
2020-09-01 |
| Tajik | tg |
2021-01-05 |
| Tamil | ta |
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| Tatar | tt |
2021-01-05 |
| Telugu | te |
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| Thai | th |
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| Tibetan | bo |
2021-01-05 |
| Tigrinya | ti |
2021-01-05 |
| Tongan | to |
2020-09-01 |
| Turkish | tr |
2021-01-05 |
| Turkmen | tk |
2021-01-05 |
| Ukrainian | uk |
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| Urdu | ur |
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| Uzbek | uz |
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| Vietnamese | vi |
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| Welsh | cy |
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| Xhosa | xh |
2021-01-05 |
| Yiddish | yi |
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| Yoruba | yo |
2021-01-05 |
| Yucatec Maya | yua |
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| Zulu | zu |
2021-01-05 |
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