How to detect text (string) language in iOS?

Question

For instance, given the following strings:

let textEN = \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\"
let textES = \"El zorro marrón rápido salta sobre el          


        

Answer 1

You can use NSLinguisticTagger's tagAt method. It support iOS 5 and later.

func detectLanguage(for text: T) -> String? {
    let tagger = NSLinguisticTagger.init(tagSchemes: [.language], options: 0)
    tagger.string = String(text)

    guard let languageCode = tagger.tag(at: 0, scheme: .language, tokenRange: nil, sentenceRange: nil) else { return nil }
    return Locale.current.localizedString(forIdentifier: languageCode)
}

detectLanguage(for: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog")              // English
detectLanguage(for: "El zorro marrón rápido salta sobre el perro perezoso")     // Spanish
detectLanguage(for: "الثعلب البني السريع يقفز فوق الكلب الكسول")                // Arabic
detectLanguage(for: "Der schnelle braune Fuchs springt über den faulen Hund")   // German