The Text Analytics API can detect a wide range of languages, variants, dialects, and some regional/cultural languages, and return detected languages with their name and code. Text Analytics Language Detection 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
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Language |
Language Code |
v3 support |
Available starting with v3 model version: |
Afrikaans |
af |
✓ |
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Albanian |
sq |
✓ |
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Amharic |
am |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Arabic |
ar |
✓ |
|
Armenian |
hy |
✓ |
|
Assamese |
as |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Azerbaijani |
az |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Basque |
eu |
✓ |
|
Belarusian |
be |
✓ |
|
Bengali |
bn |
✓ |
|
Bosnian |
bs |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Bulgarian |
bg |
✓ |
|
Burmese |
my |
✓ |
|
Catalan |
ca |
✓ |
|
Central Khmer |
km |
✓ |
|
Chinese |
zh |
✓ |
|
Chinese Simplified |
zh_chs |
✓ |
|
Chinese Traditional |
zh_cht |
✓ |
|
Corsican |
co |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Croatian |
hr |
✓ |
|
Czech |
cs |
✓ |
|
Danish |
da |
✓ |
|
Dari |
prs |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Divehi |
dv |
✓ |
|
Dutch |
nl |
✓ |
|
English |
en |
✓ |
|
Esperanto |
eo |
✓ |
|
Estonian |
et |
✓ |
|
Fijian |
fj |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Finnish |
fi |
✓ |
|
French |
fr |
✓ |
|
Galician |
gl |
✓ |
|
Georgian |
ka |
✓ |
|
German |
de |
✓ |
|
Greek |
el |
✓ |
|
Gujarati |
gu |
✓ |
|
Haitian |
ht |
✓ |
|
Hausa |
ha |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Hebrew |
he |
✓ |
|
Hindi |
hi |
✓ |
|
Hmong Daw |
mww |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Hungarian |
hu |
✓ |
|
Icelandic |
is |
✓ |
|
Igbo |
ig |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Indonesian |
id |
✓ |
|
Inuktitut |
iu |
✓ |
|
Irish |
ga |
✓ |
|
Italian |
it |
✓ |
|
Japanese |
ja |
✓ |
|
Javanese |
jv |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Kannada |
kn |
✓ |
|
Kazakh |
kk |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Kinyarwanda |
rw |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Kirghiz |
ky |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Korean |
ko |
✓ |
|
Kurdish |
ku |
✓ |
|
Lao |
lo |
✓ |
|
Latin |
la |
✓ |
|
Latvian |
lv |
✓ |
|
Lithuanian |
lt |
✓ |
|
Luxembourgish |
lb |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Macedonian |
mk |
✓ |
|
Malagasy |
mg |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Malay |
ms |
✓ |
|
Malayalam |
ml |
✓ |
|
Maltese |
mt |
✓ |
|
Maori |
mi |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Marathi |
mr |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Mongolian |
mn |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Nepali |
ne |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Norwegian |
no |
✓ |
|
Norwegian Nynorsk |
nn |
✓ |
|
Oriya |
or |
✓ |
|
Pasht |
ps |
✓ |
|
Persian |
fa |
✓ |
|
Polish |
pl |
✓ |
|
Portuguese |
pt |
✓ |
|
Punjabi |
pa |
✓ |
|
Queretaro Otomi |
otq |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Romanian |
ro |
✓ |
|
Russian |
ru |
✓ |
|
Samoan |
sm |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Serbian |
sr |
✓ |
|
Shona |
sn |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Sindhi |
sd |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Sinhala |
si |
✓ |
|
Slovak |
sk |
✓ |
|
Slovenian |
sl |
✓ |
|
Somali |
so |
✓ |
|
Spanish |
es |
✓ |
|
Sundanese |
su |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Swahili |
sw |
✓ |
|
Swedish |
sv |
✓ |
|
Tagalog |
tl |
✓ |
|
Tahitian |
ty |
✓ |
2020-09-01 |
Tajik |
tg |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Tamil |
ta |
✓ |
|
Tatar |
tt |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Telugu |
te |
✓ |
|
Thai |
th |
✓ |
|
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 |
Xhosa |
xh |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Yoruba |
yo |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |
Zulu |
zu |
✓ |
2021-01-05 |