How to determine the language of a piece of text?

Question

I want to get this:

Input text: "ру́сский язы́к"
Output text: "Russian" 

Input text: "中文"
Output text: "Chinese" 

Input text: "にほんご"
Output text: "Japanese" 

Input text: "العَرَبِيَّة"
Output text: "Arabic"

How can I do it in python?

Answer 1

Have you had a look at langdetect?

from langdetect import detect

lang = detect("Ein, zwei, drei, vier")

print lang
#output: de