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August 25, 2009

New Languages in Google Translate

Google's machine translation service added new languages: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh, Yiddish. Some of these languages have a small number of speakers: for example, according to Wikipedia, only 320,000 people speak Icelandic.


Swahili is a language spoken in Eastern Africa, Afrikaans is spoken in South Africa and Namibia, Yiddish has 3 million speakers in the Orthodox Jewish communities, Malay is an official language in Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore. Welsh is spoken in Wales, England and Argentina, Irish is spoken by a small minority of the Irish population, Macedonian has less than 3 million speakers and many enemies, while Belarusian has 9 million speakers.


The number of languages supported by Google Translate is 51, which is impressive, but there are still many popular languages that aren't supported. At least not yet.

{ via John Mueller }

204 comments:

  1. i hate it my language isnt there its called tswilllili

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  2. I'm a Malayalam native speaker; please include Malayalam in Google Translator. Not only for me, for all Malayalees in the World.

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  3. ΤΗΕ WORD MACEDONIA COMES FROM THE GREEK WORD "MAKEDNOS" WHICH MEANS TALL MAN
    ALEXANDER (THE GREAT IN THIS SITUATION) WAS NOT USED BY OTHER COUNTRIES,TRIBES BACK THEN EXPECT FROM THE GREEK CITY STATES.IT COMES FROM THE WORD ALEXO AND ANDRES AND MEANS THE PROTECTOR OF MEN
    PHILLIP COMES FROM THE GREEK WORD PHILLOS WHICH MEANS FRIEND
    BUCHEPHALUS,HORSE OF ALEXANDER,COMES FROM VUS AND KEFALE AND MEANS THE ANIMAL WITH A HEAD OF AN AX

    HOW THE HELL IS THIS "MACEDONIAN"-VARDASKIAN PROPERTY??

    SCOPJAN ALPHABET,IS A MIX OF BULGARIAN-SERBIAN.YOU ARE JUST UNEDUCATED AND YOU ONLY BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE!THATS WHY YOU CANT ACCEPT THE TRUTH.

    GOOGLE KEEPS GOING ON WITH THEIR TRAGIC PROPAGANDA.EVERYONE KNOWS THAT YOU (SLAVS) CAME IN BALKANS IN 7TH CENTURY AC FROM CENTRAL EUROPE AND YOU USED TO LIVE LIKE NOMADS..THE BULGARIANS FIRST SETTLED WHERE THEY ARE TODAY,AND YOU WENT WITH THEM AND THE BYZANTIN EMPIRE,WHICH MADE MANY SLAVS ORTHODOXS,GREEKS AND EVEN GREEK SOLDIERS!

    ALSO THE WORD SLAV,IS COMING FROM THE WORD "SLAVE" BECAUSE SLAVS WERE VERY STRONG MEN WHICH WERE VERY GOOD SLAVES AND WORKERS...

    DO SOME R E A L RESEARCH AND DONT BELIEVE ONLY YOUR PROPAGANDA FROM YOUR COUNTRY

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