franc

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:

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