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 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
Bosnian bs Latn
Bulgarian bg Cyrl
Burmese my Mymr
Catalan ca Latn
Central Khmer km Khmr
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
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
Irish ga Latn
Italian it Latn
Japanese ja Jpan
Javanese jv Latn
Kannada kn Knda, Latn
Kazakh kk Cyrl
Kinyarwanda rw Latn
Kirghiz ky Cyrl
Korean ko Hang
Kurdish ku Arab
Lao lo Laoo
Latin la Latn
Latvian lv Latn
Lithuanian lt Latn
Luxembourgish lb Latn
Macedonian mk Cyrl
Malagasy mg Latn
Malay ms Latn
Malayalam ml Mlym, Latn
Maltese mt Latn
Maori mi Latn
Marathi mr Deva, Latn
Mongolian mn Cyrl
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
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
Oriya 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

Next steps

Language detection overview