plng/guesslanguage.js

A JavaScript natural language detection library based on trigram statistical analysis for Node.js and the Web.

guessLanguage.js

A JavaScript language detection library based on trigram statistical analysis. This library works equally well when run in either the Browser or Node.js.

Usage

You can clone this repo as follows:

git clone [email protected]:richtr/guessLanguage.js.git

You can use this library in a web page as follows:

<script src="lib/_languageData.js"></script>
<script src="lib/guessLanguage.js"></script>
<script>
  guessLanguage.detect('...input text here...', function(language) {
    console.log('Detected language of provided text is [' + language + ']');
  });
</script>

You can use this library in a Node.js project. This library is available as an npm package:

sudo npm install -g guesslanguage

Using this library in a Node.js project can be done as follows:

var guessLanguage = require('./lib/guessLanguage');

guessLanguage.detect('...input text here...', function(language) {
  console.log('Detected language of provided text is [' + language + ']');
});

Languages Supported: 100

• "ab": Abkhazian
• "af": Afrikaans
• "ar": Arabic
• "az": Azerbaijani
• "be": Belarusian
• "bg": Bulgarian
• "bn": Bengali
• "bo": Tibetan
• "br": Breton
• "ca": Catalan, Valencian
• "ceb": Cebuano
• "cs": Czech
• "cy": Welsh
• "da": Danish
• "de": German
• "el": Modern Greek
• "en": English
• "eo": Esperanto
• "es": Spanish, Castilian
• "et": Estonian
• "eu": Basque
• "fa": Persian
• "fi": Finnish
• "fo": Faroese
• "fr": French
• "fy": Western Frisian
• "gd": Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic
• "gl": Galician
• "gu": Gujarati
• "ha": Hausa
• "haw": Hawaiian
• "he": Hebrew
• "hi": Hindi
• "hr": Croatian
• "hu": Hungarian
• "hy": Armenian
• "id": Indonesian
• "is": Icelandic
• "it": Italian
• "ja": Japanese
• "ka": Georgian
• "kk": Kazakh
• "km": Central Khmer
• "kn": Kannada
• "ko": Korean
• "ku": Kurdish
• "ky": Kirghiz, Kyrgyz
• "la": Latin
• "lo": Lao
• "lt": Lithuanian
• "lv": Latvian
• "mg": Malagasy
• "mk": Macedonian
• "ml": Malayalam
• "mn": Mongolian
• "mr": Marathi
• "ms": Malay (macrolanguage)
• "nd": North Ndebele
• "ne": Nepali
• "nl": Dutch, Flemish
• "nn": Norwegian Nynorsk
• "no": Norwegian
• "nso": Pedi, Northern Sotho, Sepedi
• "or": Oriya
• "pa": Panjabi, Punjabi
• "pl": Polish
• "ps": Pushto, Pashto
• "pt": Portuguese
• "pt-BR": Portuguese (Brazil)
• "pt-PT": Portuguese (Portugal)
• "ro": Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
• "ru": Russian
• "sa": Sanskrit
• "sh": Serbo-Croatian
• "si": Sinhala, Sinhalese
• "sk": Slovak
• "sl": Slovenian, Slovene
• "so": Somali
• "sq": Albanian
• "sr": Serbian
• "sv": Swedish
• "sw": Swahili (macrolanguage)
• "ta": Tamil
• "te": Telugu
• "th": Thai
• "tl": Tagalog
• "tlh": Klingon, tlhIngan-Hol
• "tn": Tswana, Setswana
• "tr": Turkish
• "ts": Tsonga
• "tw": Twi
• "uk": Ukrainian
• "ur": Urdu
• "uz": Uzbek
• "ve": Venda
• "vi": Vietnamese
• "xh": Xhosa
• "zh": Chinese
• "zh-TW" Chinese (Taiwan)
• "zu": Zulu

Feedback

Please note this library is in the early stages of development. If you find any bugs or issues please file them on this project and I'll take a look.

Please also feel free to catch me on Twitter @richtibbett.