30-seconds-of-code/snippets/detectLanguage.md

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title	tags	expertise	cover	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Detect language	browser	intermediate	blog_images/accessibility.jpg	2020-10-05T18:03:26+03:00	2020-10-06T18:47:16+03:00

Detects the preferred language of the current user.

• Use Navigator.language or the first value of Navigator.languages if available, otherwise return defaultLang.
• Omit the second argument, defaultLang, to use 'en-US' as the default language code.

const detectLanguage = (defaultLang = 'en-US') =>
  navigator.language ||
  (Array.isArray(navigator.languages) && navigator.languages[0]) ||
  defaultLang;

detectLanguage(); // 'nl-NL'