SubmissionNumber#=%=#23 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#One-shot Prompt for Language Variety Identification ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#5 CopyrightSigned#=%=# JobTitle#==# Organization#==# Abstract#==#We present a one-shot prompting approach to multi-class classification for similar language002 identification with off-the-shelf pre-trained large language model that is not particularly trained or tuned for the language identification task. Without post-training or fine-tuning the model, we simply include one example per class when prompting the model and surprisingly the model to generate the language and locale labels accordingly. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Nat Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Gillin Author{1}{Username}#=%=#gillin Author{1}{Email}#=%=#nat.gillin@gmail.com Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#Gillin Inc. ========== èéáğö