This GitHub issue is for collecting web developer signals for Language detector.

The LanguageDetector API identifies the likely natural language that some text is written in. You can use this API to supplement machine translation when the source source language is not known.

Browser support

• Chrome 138 (Jun 24, 2025)
• Chrome Android: not supported
• Edge 148 (May 7, 2026)
• Firefox: not supported
• Firefox for Android: not supported
• Safari: not supported
• Safari on iOS: not supported

Give us feedback

If you're pressed for time, but you want this feature to be available in all browsers, please give this issue a thumbs up 👍 reaction.

However, a much better guide for us is to know how you'd use this feature, and what you're having to do in the meantime. This helps us judge the priority versus other features.

Copy the template below in a comment, and add the details that matter to you.

## What I want to do with this feature

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## What I'm having to do in the meantime

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Are you having to use another feature instead, a polyfill, or is it blocking you completely?
Why are the alternatives worse than using this feature?
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All comments are expected to adhere to the Code of Conduct.

Learn more

You can learn more about this feature here:

• web features explorer
• webstatus.dev
• Specification