Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a language recognition method and apparatus, a device and a computer storage medium. In an aspect, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, after the Nth speech segment included by the speech signal is received, language recognition is performed according to already-received previous N speech segments to obtain the score of each language in at least one language, N being 2, 3, 4 . . . ; therefore, if there exists a langue whose score reaches the designated threshold, the language whose score reaches the designated threshold is considered as the language matched with the speech signal. Therefore, the technical solutions according to embodiments of the present disclosure solve the problem in the prior art that the efficiency of language recognition is lower so that the language recognition cannot be applied to an application scenario in which the recognition result needs to be obtained quickly.