# Sorting by language field in multilanguage scenario **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 27, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-by-language-field-in-multilanguage-scenario/121654 "2018-02-27T12:24:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jnatten](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jnatten/32/71781_2.png) [@jnatten](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jnatten)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-by-language-field-in-multilanguage-scenario/121654/1 "2018-02-27T12:24:59Z")
Hi there, I'm in a situation where i need to store searchable multi-language documents. As of now the mapping looks something like: [this.](https://pastebin.com/Q56LHrui) Now that is fine as long as you search for a single language, however when you are looking for any language a problem occurs: **How do i know which language i matched on? And how to i sort that language by title?** I tried doing this with highlight, which at least lets me know which language matched, but sorting by title of the language found in highlight i couldn't figure out. So i thought maybe splitting the documents up into one document per language (So one article and id would be multiple documents). Then i could use aggregations [like this](https://pastebin.com/wRB561uB) to only get the best matched result per id? That works, but still i don't know how to sort by title. So i guess my questions are: Is it possible to sort aggregations on "title.\*"? Or: Can get some sort of inner\_hits or highlighting to a painless sortscript? Or probably most likely: Am i doing this entirely wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-by-language-field-in-multilanguage-scenario/121654/2 "2018-03-27T12:25:02Z")
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