It's easy to identify words in a language that you know. Understanding genealogy records in a foreign language can be surprisingly difficult!  The first step is identifying the language used in the documents.

This language identification tool can help you to identify a language from as little as a 20 character sample.

The tool supports over 70 languages, which include:

albanian, arabic, armenian, azeri, basque, bengali, bulgarian, burmese, catalan, cebuano, chinese, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, english, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, georgian, german, greek, gujarati, gurumkhi, hausa, hawaiian, hebrew, hindi, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, italian, japanese, kannada, kazakh, klingon, korean, kyrgyz, lao, latin, latvian, lithuanian, macedonian, mongolian, nepali, norwegian, oriya, pashto, pig latin, polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, somali, spanish, swahili, swedish, tagalog, tamil, telugu, thai, tibetan, turkish, ukrainian, urdu, uzbek, vietnamese, welsh, zemblan

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