# How do language analyzers work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 3, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-language-analyzers-work/8621 "2012-08-03T05:01:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ngocvo3103](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/aca169/32.png) [@ngocvo3103](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ngocvo3103)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-language-analyzers-work/8621/1 "2012-08-03T05:01:27Z")
Hi all, I'm newbie in Elastic Search. I'm interesting in the language analyzers and I would like to know how they work. I tried analyze with the language analyzer for English and this is the result: curl -XGET ' localhost:9200/\_analyze?analyzer=english' -d 'Testing language analyzer of Elastic Search: English' And the tokens I received from ES are: - test - languag - analyz - elast - search - english Are those tokens the expected result? I think the tokens should be the whole word, but there are some incomplete word (languag, analyz, elast) Regards, Sam ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-language-analyzers-work/8621/2 "2012-08-03T07:32:16Z")
Language analyzers extract radical from words. If you send languages, language, you will have the same result. Analyzing, analyzers, analyze... will be considered as equals when analyzed. HTH David -- Le 3 août 2012 à 07:01, Ngoc Vo [ngoc.vo3103@gmail.com](mailto:ngoc.vo3103@gmail.com) a écrit : > Hi all, > > I'm newbie in Elastic Search. I'm interesting in the language analyzers and I would like to know how they work. > > I tried analyze with the language analyzer for English and this is the result: > > curl -XGET ' localhost:9200/\_analyze?analyzer=english' -d 'Testing language analyzer of Elastic Search: English' > > And the tokens I received from ES are: > > - test > - languag > - analyz > - elast > - search > - english > > Are those tokens the expected result? I think the tokens should be the whole word, but there are some incomplete word (languag, analyz, elast) > > Regards, > Sam ---
**Author:** ![Shaun\_Etherton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaun_etherton/32/2540_2.png) [@Shaun\_Etherton](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shaun_Etherton)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-language-analyzers-work/8621/3 "2012-08-03T07:49:31Z")
Wikipedia has some general info on stemming that you may find somewhat helpful. -- Shaun On Friday, 3 August 2012 at 17:02, David Pilato wrote: > Language analyzers extract radical from words. > If you send languages, language, you will have the same result. > > Analyzing, analyzers, analyze... will be considered as equals when analyzed. > > HTH > David > > -- > > Le 3 août 2012 à 07:01, Ngoc Vo [ngoc.vo3103@gmail.com](mailto:ngoc.vo3103@gmail.com) a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm newbie in Elastic Search. I'm interesting in the language analyzers and I would like to know how they work. > > > > I tried analyze with the language analyzer for English and this is the result: > > > > curl -XGET ' localhost:9200/\_analyze?analyzer=english' -d 'Testing language analyzer of Elastic Search: English' > > > > And the tokens I received from ES are: > > > > - test > > - languag > > - analyz > > - elast > > - search > > - english > > > > Are those tokens the expected result? I think the tokens should be the whole word, but there are some incomplete word (languag, analyz, elast) > > > > Regards, > > Sam ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-language-analyzers-work/8621/4 "2017-07-06T03:17:54Z")