If you surf the Internet a lot, sooner or later you will meet a language you don’t know the origin or the country it belongs to. If you what to identify an “unknown” language, here are a couple of web utilities which will help you know the name of that language.

1) Google Language Detection. This little Google web tool does a very simple but important task. It helps you identify an unknown language. It is sufficient to copy-and-paste a sentence in whatever language is written and Google will detect the language of the text using the Google Language API.

2) Google Translate. Recently, Google has added to its excellent Google Translate a nice option. As a matter of fact, just add some text or a webpage URL in the blank field, select “Detect Language” as source language, hit the Translate button and Google will determine the language of an entire web page or an online document.

Bonus

1) What language is this. This online tool, like Google tools, will help you determine what language you are dealing with. It support: English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Finnish, Norwegian, Esperanto, Slovak, Danish, Czech, Hebrew, Catalan, Hungarian, Romanian, Indonesian, Serbian, Turkish, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Ukranian, Korean, Estonian, Croatian, Telugu, Arabic, Malay, Persian, Thai, Greek, Basque, Bengali, Icelandic, Georgian, Bosnian, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Afrikaans, Tagalog (Filipino), Bishnupriya Manipuri, Hindi, Newar (Nepal Bhasa), Urdu, Tamil, Cebuano.