Discover the language.
Lets try and unbox Python langdetect library, which will be very useful for text processing and linguistic tasks. This is a language detection library implemented in plain Java.
As stated in pypi.org langdetect supports 55 languages out of the box , now maybe even more. So let's try some practical examples !
Lets install langdetect.
pip install langdetect
from langdetect import detect
Lets detect english text.
try_text="My daughter just revealed to me she's transexual... I guess that makes me transparent."
detect(try_text)
OUT: en
Lets detect spanish text.
try_text2='Hoy pasaré por la biblioteca para devolver los libros.'
detect(try_text2)
OUT: es
Lets detect russian text.
try_text3="Ночь темна и полна ужасов, а холодильник светел и полон обещаний."
detect(try_text3)
OUT: ru
Lets detect french text.
try_text4="La pire position sexuelle c'est quand t'es allongé en dessous et qu'au dessus il n'y a personne..."
detect(try_text4)
OUT: fr
Lets detect chinese text.
try_text5='''妈妈说：“今天能完成的事，不要留到明天。”
儿子回答：“好吧，把全蛋糕给我，我今天都吃光了吧。'''
detect(try_text5)
OUT: zh-cn