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tags: browser,intermediate
---
Detects what the language of the current user is.
Detects the preferred language of the current user.
- Retrieve the current language by looking in several places of the navigator object.
- Use `NavigationLanguage.language` or the first `NavigationLanguage.languages` if available, otherwise return `defaultLang`.
- Omit the second argument, `defaultLang`, to use `'en-US'` as the default language code.
```js
const detectLanguage = () => {
if (navigator.languages && navigator.languages.length) {
return navigator.languages[0];
} else {
return navigator.userLanguage || navigator.language || navigator.browserLanguage || 'en-US';
}
};
const detectLanguage = (defaultLang = 'en-US') =>
navigator.language ||
(Array.isArray(navigator.languages) && navigator.languages[0] ) ||
defaultLang;
```
```js
detectLanguage(); // "nl-NL"
detectLanguage(); // 'nl-NL'
```