spot the language

Someone wrote to my favorite list,

I received this spam today. Does anyone know what language it is? (And is there a tool, pref. on the web and free, that can take a piece of text and guess what language it’s written in?)

I’d never have thought to look for such a tool, but Lance Nathan came through with three:

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One Response to spot the language

  1. Anton says:

    Google Translate incorporates a language identifier.

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