{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/detectlanguage/refs/heads/main/json-schema/language-candidate.json",
  "title": "Language Candidate",
  "description": "A detected language candidate returned by the DetectLanguage API. Contains a BCP-47 language code and a confidence score between 0 and 1.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "language": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "BCP-47 language code (e.g., 'en' for English, 'it' for Italian, 'zh' for Chinese).",
      "example": "en"
    },
    "score": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 1,
      "description": "Detection confidence score between 0 and 1. Higher values indicate higher detection accuracy.",
      "example": 0.9098
    }
  },
  "required": ["language", "score"],
  "examples": [
    {
      "language": "en",
      "score": 0.9098
    },
    {
      "language": "it",
      "score": 0.5074
    }
  ]
}