---
title: recognitionLanguages
framework: vision
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: vision/vnrecognizetextrequest/recognitionlanguages
---

# recognitionLanguages

An array of languages to detect, in priority order.

## Declaration

```swift
var recognitionLanguages: [String] { get set }
```

## Mentioned in

Recognizing Text in Images

## Discussion

Discussion The order of the languages in the array defines the order in which languages are used during language processing and text recognition. Specify the languages as ISO language codes.

## See Also

### Specifying the Language

- [automaticallyDetectsLanguage](vision/vnrecognizetextrequest/automaticallydetectslanguage.md)
- [usesLanguageCorrection](vision/vnrecognizetextrequest/useslanguagecorrection.md)
- [customWords](vision/vnrecognizetextrequest/customwords.md)
- [supportedRecognitionLanguages()](vision/vnrecognizetextrequest/supportedrecognitionlanguages().md)
- [supportedRecognitionLanguages(for:revision:)](vision/vnrecognizetextrequest/supportedrecognitionlanguages(for:revision:).md)