franc

Detect the language of text.

Built with support for 186 languages (1M or more speakers).

View the monorepo for more packages and
info on using them.

Install

This package is ESM only.
In Node.js (version 14.14+, 16.0+), install with
npm:

npm:

``sh
npm install franc
`

Data

This build supports the following languages:

| Code | Name | Speakers |
| - | - | - |
| cmn | Mandarin Chinese | 885M |
| spa | Spanish | 332M |
| eng | English | 322M |
| rus | Russian | 288M |
| arb | Standard Arabic | 280M |
| ben | Bengali | 196M |
| hin | Hindi | 182M |
| por | Portuguese | 182M |
| ind | Indonesian | 140M |
| jpn | Japanese | 125M |
| fra | French | 124M |
| deu | German | 121M |
| jav | Javanese (Javanese) | 76M |
| jav | Javanese (Latin) | 76M |
| kor | Korean | 75M |
| tel | Telugu | 73M |
| vie | Vietnamese | 67M |
| mar | Marathi | 65M |
| ita | Italian | 63M |
| tam | Tamil | 62M |
| tur | Turkish | 59M |
| urd | Urdu | 54M |
| guj | Gujarati | 44M |
| pol | Polish | 44M |
| ukr | Ukrainian | 41M |
| kan | Kannada | 38M |
| mai | Maithili | 35M |
| mal | Malayalam | 34M |
| pes | Iranian Persian | 33M |
| mya | Burmese | 31M |
| swh | Swahili (individual language) | 30M |
| sun | Sundanese | 27M |
| ron | Romanian | 26M |
| pan | Panjabi | 26M |
| bho | Bhojpuri | 25M |
| amh | Amharic | 23M |
| hau | Hausa | 22M |
| fuv | Nigerian Fulfulde | 22M |
| bos | Bosnian (Cyrillic) | 21M |
| bos | Bosnian (Latin) | 21M |
| hrv | Croatian | 21M |
| nld | Dutch | 21M |
| srp | Serbian (Cyrillic) | 21M |
| srp | Serbian (Latin) | 21M |
| tha | Thai | 21M |
| ckb | Central Kurdish | 20M |
| yor | Yoruba | 20M |
| uzn | Northern Uzbek (Cyrillic) | 18M |
| uzn | Northern Uzbek (Latin) | 18M |
| zlm | Malay (individual language) (Arabic) | 18M |
| zlm | Malay (individual language) (Latin) | 18M |
| ibo | Igbo | 17M |
| npi | Nepali (individual language) | 16M |
| ceb | Cebuano | 15M |
| skr | Saraiki | 15M |
| tgl | Tagalog | 15M |
| hun | Hungarian | 15M |
| azj | North Azerbaijani (Cyrillic) | 14M |
| azj | North Azerbaijani (Latin) | 14M |
| sin | Sinhala | 13M |
| koi | Komi-Permyak | 13M |
| ell | Modern Greek (1453-) | 12M |
| ces | Czech | 12M |
| mag | Magahi | 11M |
| run | Rundi | 11M |
| bel | Belarusian | 10M |
| plt | Plateau Malagasy | 10M |
| qug | Chimborazo Highland Quichua | 10M |
| mad | Madurese | 10M |
| nya | Nyanja | 10M |
| zyb | Yongbei Zhuang | 10M |
| pbu | Northern Pashto | 10M |
| kin | Kinyarwanda | 9M |
| zul | Zulu | 9M |
| bul | Bulgarian | 9M |
| swe | Swedish | 9M |
| lin | Lingala | 8M |
| som | Somali | 8M |
| hms | Southern Qiandong Miao | 8M |
| hnj | Hmong Njua | 8M |
| ilo | Iloko | 8M |
| kaz | Kazakh | 8M |
| uig | Uighur (Arabic) | 7M |
| uig | Uighur (Latin) | 7M |
| hat | Haitian | 7M |
| khm | Khmer | 7M |
| prs | Dari | 7M |
| hil | Hiligaynon | 7M |
| sna | Shona | 7M |
| tat | Tatar | 7M |
| xho | Xhosa | 7M |
| hye | Armenian | 7M |
| min | Minangkabau | 7M |
| afr | Afrikaans | 6M |
| lua | Luba-Lulua | 6M |
| sat | Santali | 6M |
| bod | Tibetan | 6M |
| tir | Tigrinya | 6M |
| fin | Finnish | 6M |
| slk | Slovak | 6M |
| tuk | Turkmen (Cyrillic) | 5M |
| tuk | Turkmen (Latin) | 5M |
| dan | Danish | 5M |
| nob | Norwegian Bokmål | 5M |
| suk | Sukuma | 5M |
| als | Tosk Albanian | 5M |
| sag | Sango | 5M |
| nno | Norwegian Nynorsk | 5M |
| heb | Hebrew | 5M |
| mos | Mossi | 5M |
| tgk | Tajik | 4M |
| cat | Catalan | 4M |
| sot | Southern Sotho | 4M |
| kat | Georgian | 4M |
| bcl | Central Bikol | 4M |
| glg | Galician | 4M |
| lao | Lao | 4M |
| lit | Lithuanian | 4M |
| umb | Umbundu | 4M |
| tsn | Tswana | 4M |
| vec | Venetian | 4M |
| nso | Pedi | 4M |
| ban | Balinese | 4M |
| bug | Buginese | 4M |
| knc | Central Kanuri | 4M |
| kng | Koongo | 3M |
| ibb | Ibibio | 3M |
| lug | Ganda | 3M |
| ace | Achinese | 3M |
| bam | Bambara | 3M |
| tzm | Central Atlas Tamazight | 3M |
| ydd | Eastern Yiddish | 3M |
| kmb | Kimbundu | 3M |
| lun | Lunda | 3M |
| shn | Shan | 3M |
| war | Waray (Philippines) | 3M |
| dyu | Dyula | 3M |
| wol | Wolof | 3M |
| kir | Kirghiz | 3M |
| nds | Low German | 3M |
| fuf | Pular | 3M |
| mkd | Macedonian | 3M |
| vmw | Makhuwa | 3M |
| zgh | Standard Moroccan Tamazight | 2M |
| ewe | Ewe | 2M |
| khk | Halh Mongolian | 2M |
| slv | Slovenian | 2M |
| ayr | Central Aymara | 2M |
| bem | Bemba (Zambia) | 2M |
| emk | Eastern Maninkakan | 2M |
| bci | Baoulé | 2M |
| bum | Bulu (Cameroon) | 2M |
| epo | Esperanto | 2M |
| pam | Pampanga | 2M |
| tiv | Tiv | 2M |
| tpi | Tok Pisin | 2M |
| ven | Venda | 2M |
| ssw | Swati | 2M |
| nyn | Nyankole | 2M |
| kbd | Kabardian | 2M |
| iii | Sichuan Yi | 2M |
| yao | Yao | 2M |
| lvs | Standard Latvian | 2M |
| quz | Cusco Quechua | 2M |
| src | Logudorese Sardinian | 2M |
| rup | Macedo-Romanian | 2M |
| sco | Scots | 2M |
| tso | Tsonga | 2M |
| men | Mende (Sierra Leone) | 1M |
| fon | Fon | 1M |
| nhn | Central Nahuatl | 1M |
| dip | Northeastern Dinka | 1M |
| kde | Makonde | 1M |
| kbp | Kabiyè | 1M |
| tem | Timne | 1M |
| toi | Tonga (Zambia) | 1M |
| ekk | Standard Estonian | 1M |
| snk | Soninke | 1M |
| cjk | Chokwe | 1M |
| ada | Adangme | 1M |
| aii | Assyrian Neo-Aramaic | 1M |
| quy | Ayacucho Quechua | 1M |
| rmn | Balkan Romani | 1M |
| bin | Bini | 1M |
| gaa | Ga | 1M |
| ndo` | Ndonga | 1M |

License

MIT © Titus Wormer