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
- Basque
- 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
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
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