GET /languages - lyrcs.ai

Endpoint

GET https://lyrcs.ai/api/v1/languages

No authentication required. Returns the complete list of supported languages with name and language family.

Response

{
  "languages": [
    { "name": "Hindi", "family": "Indo-Aryan" },
    { "name": "Tamil", "family": "Dravidian" }
  ],
  "total": 48
}

Using language values

The name field is the value to pass as language in POST /transcribe and POST /batch.

Language values are case-sensitive. "Tamil" is accepted. "tamil" and "TAMIL" both return 400 validation_error. Always use the exact strings from this endpoint.

Full language reference

Indian Languages — 30

Language	Family
Hindi	Indo-Aryan
Bengali	Indo-Aryan
Marathi	Indo-Aryan
Telugu	Dravidian
Tamil	Dravidian
Gujarati	Indo-Aryan
Urdu	Indo-Aryan
Kannada	Dravidian
Odia	Indo-Aryan
Malayalam	Dravidian
Punjabi	Indo-Aryan
Assamese	Indo-Aryan
Maithili	Indo-Aryan
Santali	Austroasiatic
Kashmiri	Indo-Aryan
Nepali	Indo-Aryan
Sindhi	Indo-Aryan
Konkani	Indo-Aryan
Dogri	Indo-Aryan
Manipuri	Sino-Tibetan
Bodo	Sino-Tibetan
Sanskrit	Indo-Aryan
Haryanvi	Indo-Aryan
Bhojpuri	Indo-Aryan
Magahi	Indo-Aryan
Chhattisgarhi	Indo-Aryan
Rajasthani	Indo-Aryan
Tulu	Dravidian
Gondi	Dravidian
Saurashtra	Indo-Aryan

Global Languages — 18

Language	Family
English	Germanic
Spanish	Romance
Mandarin Chinese	Sino-Tibetan
French	Romance
Arabic	Semitic
Portuguese	Romance
Russian	Slavic
Japanese	Japonic
German	Germanic
Korean	Koreanic
Italian	Romance
Turkish	Turkic
Dutch	Germanic
Indonesian	Austronesian
Thai	Tai-Kadai
Yoruba	Niger-Congo
Swahili	Niger-Congo
Zulu	Niger-Congo

Examples

curl https://lyrcs.ai/api/v1/languages

const res = await fetch("https://lyrcs.ai/api/v1/languages");
const { languages } = await res.json();

// Get all Indian language names
const indianLangs = languages
  .filter((l) => ["Indo-Aryan", "Dravidian", "Austroasiatic", "Sino-Tibetan"].includes(l.family))
  .map((l) => l.name);

import requests

r = requests.get("https://lyrcs.ai/api/v1/languages")
languages = r.json()["languages"]

# Get all language names as a set for validation
valid_languages = {lang["name"] for lang in languages}