1. Method of identifying a language in which a text is composed as a string of characters, in which a frequency distribution (h 1 (x), h 2 (x,y), h 3 (x,y,z)) of letters in the text is ascertained, the ascertained frequency distribution (h 1 (x), h 2 (x,y), h 3 (x,y,z)) is compared with corresponding frequency distributions (l 1 (x), l 2 (x,y), l 3 (x,y,z)) of available languages, in order to ascertain similarity factors (S 1, S 2, S 3 ) which indicate the similarity of the language of the text with the available languages, and the language for which the ascertained similarity factor (s 1, S 2, S 3 ) is the greatest is established as the language of the text.