What Language Is This? Dot Com!
Since the language analyzer is becoming one of the most used web services that I run, the other day I was thinking that it would be cool get it its own domain (and a .com domain costs just 50 SEK (around 850 yen in normal times) anyway). So I was thinking about what domain name to get - that isn't already taken - and well, one of the most common search phrases people use to find the language analyzer is "what language is this webpage/blog/text/whatever" and luckily whatlanguageisthis.com was available, so there it is! I think it's quite easy to remember and very easy to tell people. 4 stars out of 5, perhaps? Pretty good.

Setting up the new site was pretty easy; it's essentially just a php script that chdirs into the language analyzer directory and continues from there as before.
I also did another nice update: the data file that the app uses to identify the language is now downloaded after the page and all the application javascript files have loaded. That means the page should load much faster, and the user can start reading the instructions or entering text while the data is being downloaded in the background. If the user clicks "Go" before the data file is downloaded, it will stop and wait, while displaying a typical web 2.0-ish loading indicator.
I'm planning to add support for more languages soon, and improve identification of similar-looking languages even further. Anyway, here's the url for the new site again:
http://whatlanguageisthis.com/
Labels: language analyzer, projects, web apps

16 Comments:
hi
loved the website and its results. How about sharing code.
Gabiing malinaw
madulom ang tanan
gawas lang sa Batang Hesus
nga gibantayan man nila
sa langitnong kalinaw
nia'ng Mesiyas karon.
this is silent night in cebuano, Philopino language.
The Program suggest tagalo, Philipino language, i.e. very near, but not exactly. ???
Hi, Cebuano is currently not supported, but I'll add it in the next update (some time after New Year). Thanks for providing the sample text!
Tried entering simple Bangla phrases transliterated in English.
I LOVE YOU = Ami tomate bhalobashi.
I DON'T SPEAK BANGALI = Ami Bangla janna na.
The system said it was Bosnian... Does it only pick up Bengali when written in the native characters?
Jc
Jc,
Yes, unfortunately transliterated texts are not supported (as mentioned on the about page). If writing Bangla using latin script is common then I'll certainly add support for it, but I cannot find a reasonably large source of Bangla texts written in latin characters...
Thank you - Thank you!! Wonderful tool, very easy to use.
It seems a hard work for this widget to tell Chinese character. I tried to paste some Chinese character, and the result is always "unknown".
add on to firefox see lot of people using that but still very good site /software
is there an email address where i can send mr. falck a picture to see if he can identify the language in it? It's a small piece of writing, but so far i have had absolutely no luck identifying it. Thank you.
a. nahnemus,
Please send it to f [at] lck . nu (i.e. my last name falck with the a replaced by @ and add .nu)
If I can't recognize it (which is quite probable) I'll put it on whatlanguageisthis.com and ask the visitors for help. I'm sure someone will know!
USEFUL WEBSITE.THANK YOU
great site ! thanks
Thanks!
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Can anyone tell me what language this is?
That's Chinese. I don't know why the identifier doesn't recognize that sentense... it should be easy. I'll look into it.
A spell check would make this site awesome!
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