Identify Language From Text is a free web service that allows you to identify in which language was written any text you need to analyze. This tool currently analyzes up to 75 different languages, depending on the encoding.

Supported Languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Alemannic, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Georgian, German, Greek, Hawaian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish_gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Manx, Marathi, Middle_frisian, Mingo_iroquois, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian_farsi, Polish, Portuguese_brazil, Portuguese_europe, Quechua, Romanian, Rumantsch, Russian, Sanskrit, Scots, Scots_gaelic, Serbian, Serbian_cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish

Online Identify Language From Text Information:

• Purpose of this Tool : Identify Language From Text, Statistical text analysis, Textual Analysis, Language Identification
• Intended Audience : End Users, Webmasters, Text/Language Analyzers

External Resources:

• TextCat
• n-gram
• Google N-Gram-Patterns
• language_detector, open source N-Gram based language detector, written in ruby
• Language Research
• List of ISO 639-2 codes
• OpenSubtitles.org the biggest data base for DivX subtitles on earth