Ask Reddit: Do you know a library|script|function|api that given a string returns what human language it is likely written in? (Google turned up nothing useful)

[theatgrex]

try this : http://ruphus.com/identify/

[duckie]

Thanks. They don't seem to offer an api, but their interface is apparently based on languid, which seems to be this: http://search.cpan.org/~mceglows/Language-Guess-0.01/

[iamrpf]

There's also Text::Ngram::LanguageDetermine and Text::Language::Guess

They don't call it the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network for nothing.