Would this tool ever be helpful to our catalogers? Xerox’s “Language Identifier” will tell you what language a document is written in; just paste some text into the webform and hit the button. The service currently identifies the following languages:
- Afrikaans (Afrikaans)
- Arabic (العربية)
- Azerbaijani (Azərbaycanca)
- Belarusian (Беларуская)
- Bulgarian (български език)
- Breton (Brezhoneg)
- Bosnian (Bosanski)
- Catalan (Català)
- Cebuano (Sinugboanong Binisaya)
- Czech (Česky)
- Welsh (Cymraeg)
- Danish (Dansk)
- German (Deutsch)
- Greek (Ελληνικά)
- English (English)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- Spanish; Castilian (Español)
- Estonian (Eesti)
- Basque (Euskara)
- Persian (فارسی)
- Finnish (Suomi)
- French (Français)
- Irish (Gaeilge)
- Galician (Galego)
- Hebrew (עברית)
- Hindi (हिन्दी)
- Croatian (Hrvatski)
- Haitian (Krèyol ayisyen)
- Hungarian (Magyar)
- Armenian (Հայերեն)
- Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
- Icelandic (Íslenska)
- Italian (Italiano)
- Japanese (日本語)
- Javanese (Basa Jawa)
- Georgian (ქართული)
- Kazakh (Қазақша)
- Korean (한국어)
- Latin (Latine)
- Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch)
- Lithuanian (Lietuvių)
- Latvian (Latviešu valoda)
- Malagasy (Malagasy)
- Minangkabau (Minangkabau)
- Macedonian (Македонски)
- Malayalam (മലയാളം)
- Marathi (मराठी)
- Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
- Maltese (Malti)
- Burmese ()
- Nepal Bhasa; Newari (नेपाल भाषा)
- Dutch (Nederlands)
- Norwegian Nynorsk (Nynorsk)
- Norwegian (Norsk (Bokmål))
- Occitan (Occitan)
- Polish (Polski)
- Portuguese (Português)
- Quechua (Runa Simi)
- Romanian (Română)
- Russian (русский язык)
- Slovak (Slovenčina)
- Slovenian (Slovenščina)
- Albanian (Shqip)
- Serbian (Српски)
- Swedish (Svenska)
- Swahili (Kiswahili)
- Tamil (தமிழ்)
- Telugu (తెలుగు)
- Tajik (Тоҷикӣ)
- Thai (ไทย)
- Tagalog (Tagalog)
- Turkish (Türkçe)
- Tatar (Татарча)
- Ukrainian (українська мова)
- Urdu (اردو)
- Uzbek (O‘zbek)
- Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
- Waray (Winaray)
- Yoruba (Yorùbá)
- Chinese (中文)