LexiLang

Simple, fast dictionary-based language detector for short texts.

Installation

pip install lexilang

Usage

from lexilang.detector import detect

print(detect("bonjour")) # ('fr', 0.45)
print(detect("学中文")) # ('zh', 0.45)
print(detect("ciao mondo")) # ('it', 0.9)
print(detect("El gato doméstico")) # ('es', 0.45)

# Optionally, specify a subset of languages to consider
print(detect("ciao", languages=["de", "ro"])) # ('de', 0.45)

detect(text, languages=[]) -> tuple (iso_639_1, confidence)

Supported Languages

• Afrikaans
• Albanian
• Arabic
• Bengali
• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• Chinese
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Esperanto
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Kabyle
• Kazakh
• Korean
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Macedonian
• Norwegian
• Occitan
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese
• Farsi

Limitations

This detector was designed for handling small texts (< 20 characters). It will probably not work reliably for longer text sequences. As it relies on dictionaries, if a word is missing or mispelled, the detection will fail.

Contributing

If you want to add a new language, or improve an existing one, add more words to the respective dictionary in the dictionaries folder.

License

AGPLv3