Google Says, “For years Google translation has helped break down language barriers and connect communities around the world.” And most would agree. As will some who have never used this nifty language translation feature. Google is now rolling out Google Translate as much as possible. The plan is to reach more people with the aim of targeting languages that it says are “not represented in most technology”.
Google has added 24 new languages to Translate. With this, Google Translate now supports a total of 133 languages across the world. According to the company, this is also a technical milestone for Google Translate. These are the first languages to claim this has been linked using zero-shot machine translation, where a machine learning model sees only monolingual text – that is, it learns to translate into another language without looking at examples. . But Google has a disclaimer here: “While this technology is impressive, it’s not perfect. And we’ll keep improving these models to give you the same experience with, for example, Spanish or German translation.”
More than 300 million people use these newly added languages – such as Mizo, spoken by about 800,000 people in the far northeast of India, and Lingala, is spoken by over 45 million people throughout Central Africa. As part of this update, the indigenous languages of the Americas (Quechua, Guarani and Aymara) and an English dialect (Sierra Leonean Creo) have also been added to the translation for the first time.
Full list of new languages now available in Google Translate:
Assamese, used by about 25 million people in Northeast India
Used by about two million people in Aymara, Bolivia, Chile and Peru
Bambara, used by about 14 million people in Mali
Bhojpuri, used by about 50 million people in North India, Nepal and Fiji
Dhivehi is used by around 300,000 people in the Maldives.
Dogri, used by about 3 million people in northern India
Used by approximately seven million people in Ewe, Ghana and Togo
Guarani is used by about seven million people in Paraguay and Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil.
Used by about 10 million people in Ilocano, northern Philippines
Konkani, used by about two million people in central India
Krio, used by about four million people in Sierra Leone
Kurdish (Sorani), used by about eight million people, mostly in Iraq
Used by approximately 45 million people in Lingala, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic
Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola and South Sudan
Used by approximately 20 million people in Luganda, Uganda and Rwanda
Maithili, which is used by about 34 million people in North India
Metillon (Manipuri), used by about two million people in Northeast India
Mizo, used by about 830,000 people in Northeast India
Used by approximately 37 million people in Oromo, Ethiopia and Kenya
Used by about 10 million people in Quechua, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and surrounding countries
Sanskrit, used by about 20,000 people in India
Sepedi, used by around 14 million people in South Africa
Used by about eight million people in Tigrinya, Eritrea and Ethiopia
Used by about seven million people in Tsonga, Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa and
Zimbabwe
Twi, used by approximately 11 million people in Ghana
The company also has a message for users: If you want to help us support your language in future updates, rate or contribute to the translation via Translate Contribution.