language identifier
nounUK /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ aɪˈden.tɪ.faɪ.ər/
US /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ aɪˈden.t̬ə.faɪ.ɚ/
A language identifier is a tool or label that tells you which language some words are in.
The app used a language identifier to guess that the message was written in Spanish.
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2. A short code, like 'en' or 'fr', that stands for a language in a computer system.
The website stored 'pt-BR' as the language identifier for Brazilian Portuguese.
3. A program that automatically detects the language of a piece of text.
The language identifier flagged the review as Japanese before sending it to a translator.
4. A tag in a document or file that marks which human language its content uses.
Screen readers read the page aloud correctly because each section had a language identifier.