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When you analyze text or a web page, Natural Language Understanding detects the source language automatically and returns the corresponding ISO 639-1 code in the response. For automatic language detection to work best, it is recommended that you use text with at least 100 characters. {: shortdesc}
If automatic language detection isn't working well for your use case, you can manually specify the language of your content in each request. {: tip}
The following table lists the detectable languages and corresponding ISO 639-1 codes.
| Language | ISO 639-1 code |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af |
| Albanian | sq |
| Amharic | am |
| Arabic | ar |
| Armenian | hy |
| Azerbaijani | az |
| Basque | eu |
| Bengali | bn |
| Breton | br |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Catalan | ca |
| Chamorro | ch |
| Chinese | zh |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Dutch | nl |
| English | en |
| Esperanto | eo |
| Estonian | et |
| Faroese | fo |
| Fijian | fj |
| Finnish | fi |
| French | fr |
| Georgian | ka |
| German | de |
| Greek | el |
| Gujarati | gu |
| Haitian Creole | ht |
| Hausa | ha |
| Hebrew | he |
| Hindi | hi |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Icelandic | is |
| Indonesian | id |
| Irish | ga |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Kirghiz | ky |
| Korean | ko |
| Latin | la |
| Latvian | lv |
| Lithuanian | lt |
| Macedonian | mk |
| Malay | ms |
| Maltese | mt |
| Maori | mi |
| Ndebele | nr |
| Nepali | ne |
| Norwegian | no |
| Ojibwa | oj |
| Persian | fa |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Pushto | ps |
| Romanian | ro |
| Russian | ru |
| Serbian | sr |
| Shona | sn |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovenian | sl |
| Spanish | es |
| Swahili | sw |
| Swedish | sv |
| Tagalog | tl |
| Thai | th |
| Turkish | tr |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Urdu | ur |
| Vietnamese | vi |
| Welsh | cy |
| Wolof | wo |
| Xhosa | xh |