Google launched Google Translate in 2006. Since then, the company has slowly and steadily added support for more languages to the language translation platform. Last month, the company added support for 24 new languages, bringing the total number of supported languages to 133. However, Google has never added as many languages to Google Translate as it is currently doing.
Google announced that Google Translate is getting its “the largest expansion ever” as the company adds support for 110 new languages to the translation platform, bringing the total number of supported languages to 243. In comparison, Apple Translate supports 20 languages and Microsoft Translator supports 135 languages This gives Google an advantage among the top three players.
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Google Translate now supports a total of 243 languages
According to Google, it was able to achieve this feat thanks to the company’s large PaLM 2 language model. Some of the newly supported languages include Afar, Cantonese, Manx, NKo, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Tamazight (Amazigh), and Tok. Pisine. According to the company, the 110 newly added languages ”represent more than 614 million speakers, paving the way for translations for approximately 8% of the world’s population.»
Google further says “Some are major world languages, spoken by more than 100 million speakers. Others are spoken by small communities of indigenous peoples, and a few have almost no native speakers but are the subject of active revitalization efforts.“A quarter of the 110 languages come from Africa, including Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda and Wolof, making it the largest extension of African languages on Google Translate to date .
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