diff --git a/java/src/main/java/tech/sourced/enry/Enry.java b/java/src/main/java/tech/sourced/enry/Enry.java
index 193922c..388163e 100644
--- a/java/src/main/java/tech/sourced/enry/Enry.java
+++ b/java/src/main/java/tech/sourced/enry/Enry.java
@@ -247,4 +247,14 @@ public class Enry {
     public static synchronized boolean isTest(String path) {
         return toJavaBool(nativeLib.IsTest(toGoString(path)));
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns type for given language.
+     *
+     * @param language of the file
+     * @return type (data, programming, markup, prose)
+     */
+    public static synchronized String getLanguageType(String language) {
+        return toJavaString(nativeLib.GetLanguageType(toGoString(language)));
+    }
 }
diff --git a/java/src/test/java/tech/sourced/enry/EnryTest.java b/java/src/test/java/tech/sourced/enry/EnryTest.java
index 32d9e37..25ba5d2 100644
--- a/java/src/test/java/tech/sourced/enry/EnryTest.java
+++ b/java/src/test/java/tech/sourced/enry/EnryTest.java
@@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ public class EnryTest {
         assertFalse(Enry.isTest("src/java/foo.java"));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void getLanguageType() {
+        assertEquals("data", Enry.getLanguageType("CSV"));
+    }
+
     void assertGuess(String language, boolean safe, Guess guess) {
         assertEquals(language, guess.language);
         assertEquals(safe, guess.safe);
diff --git a/shared/enry.go b/shared/enry.go
index b109804..1b1a538 100644
--- a/shared/enry.go
+++ b/shared/enry.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package main
 
 import "C"
 import "github.com/go-enry/go-enry/v2"
+import "github.com/go-enry/go-enry/v2/data"
 
 //export GetLanguage
 func GetLanguage(filename string, content []byte) string {
@@ -141,10 +142,15 @@ func IsTest(path string) bool {
 	return enry.IsTest(path)
 }
 
+//export GetLanguageType
+func GetLanguageType(language string) string {
+	return data.Type(enry.GetLanguageType(language)).String()
+}
+
 func strSliceCopy(result *[]*C.char, slice []string) {
 	for _, str := range slice {
 		*result = append(*result, C.CString(str))
 	}
 }
 
-func main() {}
+func main() {}
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