General ⇒ Retrieve the current Language

[Laurentius]

Is there a command that returns the current language?

[cgnieder]

Both in babel and in polyglossia (for XeLaTeX) the current language name is stored in \languagename.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[german,english]{babel}
\begin{document}

\languagename\selectlanguage{german} \languagename

\end{document}

or

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{german}
\begin{document}

\languagename\selectlanguage{german} \languagename

\end{document}

Regards