One excellent foreign language identifier is Polyglot 3000. The main – and only purpose – of the software program is to identify foreign languages. It does that by analyzing text that gets pasted into its interface. All that the user needs to do is therefor copy a sample of the text into the program interface and hit the F9 key to make the software analyze the text.

The software will display the identified foreign language afterwards giving a percentage value that is defining the recognition accuracy. The program will furthermore rate the recognition rate and display similar languages.

Polyglot 3000 is currently supported 474 different languages that it can recognize. The recognition can be narrowed down by only scanning for the most popular languages or only Cyrillic languages. The software program supports both Unicode and ANSI encodings.

The freeware is able to detect more than 260 different language and encoding modules. Usage is simple as well, you copy and paste the text into the language identifier window and press the identify language button. The analyzer will report on the language used and languages that come close to the one used. I presume this is to avoid errors when the reported used language is not the right one, never experienced that case though.

Update: The original website is no longer available. We have uploaded the software to our servers from where you can download the latest working version. Lextek Language Identifier (5)

The program starts up fine after installation, even on newer Microsoft operating systems like a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows 7. Once you have installed the program you will see the following interface.

First thing that you need to do is to load one, multiple or all languages into the program. These languages are then used in the language identification process. Once you have added at least one language to the interface you can start adding text to the window. This can be done by either typing the text in directly, or by copying or pasting text into the window. Please note that you need to enter at least 200 characters into the window so that text can be identified properly.

Just click on the Identify Language button once you have stopped adding text to run the language identifier. The program will then display the language the text is written in in its interface. You can also clear the text window to start anew.