Search Gmail by Language

By Gina Trapani on November 17, 2007 at 1:00 AM

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An undocumented Gmail search operator, language: (or simply lang:), finds messages by the language they’re written in. Give it a try in your inbox: lang:Portuguese and lang:Arabic both turn up several messages in the Lifehacker tips box. Sadly -lang:English doesn’t seem to work, which would be perfect to create a filter for all messages not in English; but you can create filters to snag messages in particular languages you don’t speak, for instance.

Hidden Gmail feature lets you search by language [Googling Google via Google Blogoscoped]

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