Laalune
February 20, 2010, 10:43pm
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jjimm:
If you go to http://translate.google.com/ , select English as the target language, then select “detect language” as the source, it usually gets it right.
However, it doesn’t tell you what the feckin’ language was. :smack:
Yes, it does, right above the translation, on the blueish field.
Arnold_Winkelried:
I was search for something today and ended up at a Wikipedia site in an unknown language. The language was very similar to one I knew, but I could tell that it was not the language that I knew. I had to do a bit of searching to finally figure it out.
For those of you that like puzzles, here is a sample page in that language:Denis Diderot - Wikipedia
and the language is, I believe,
So suppose I find a text in an unknown language. What is the easiest way to determine what language the text is in? Is there a website where I can type in (or copy and paste) some text, and be told the language for that text?
Well, I’m no linguist, but I do like puzzles; Although it dosen’t answer your question in general, your sample page’s URL led me to here within two clicks.
My answer, without reading your spoiler:
And yes, my first instinct was to make a joke about it.
LSLGuy
February 21, 2010, 1:44pm
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This part Glesga - Wikipedia is fantastic.
BigT
February 21, 2010, 2:11pm
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Does Scots really have that many words in common with English? I’d never noticed.
Yeah. I looked at that and could immediately say: Some Italian dialect-- not standard, but not too different. Never even heard of Tarantino.
As for identifying languages, I think Johanna’s advice is the best. It’s what I would do, so it must be right!
jjimm
February 22, 2010, 2:21pm
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Scots does - it’s a dialect of English. Scottish Gaelic, not so much .
But it only knows about 50 languages.
