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GOOGLE TRANSLATE JUST ADDED 110 MORE LANGUAGES

You can now use the app to communicate in languages you've never even heard of.
Emily Long
June 28, 2024
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Google Translate can come in handy when you're traveling or communicating with
someone who speaks another language, and thanks to a new update, you can now
connect with some 614 million more people. Google is adding 110 new languages to
its Translate tool using its AI PaLM 2 large language model (LLM), which brings
the total of supported languages to nearly 250. This follows the 24 languages
added in 2022, including Indigenous languages of the Americas as well as those
spoken across Africa and central Asia.



Many of the recently added languages are ones you've probably never heard of, as
they're spoken only by small communities or have no native speakers.

Cantonese, which is spoken predominantly in southeastern China, Hong Kong, and
Macau as well as communities across the world, may be one of the most
recognizable additions with this update. According to Google, the overlap
between Cantonese and Mandarin—which was already available—makes it difficult to
train LLMs. Punjabi (Shahmukhi), the most spoken language in Pakistan, is also
now available.

A quarter of the newly supported languages come from Africa, and include
Afar—spoken in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia—and Tamazight (Amazigh), a Berber
language used across North Africa, as well as NKo, Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati,
Venda, and Wolof.

You can also now use Google Translate to communicate in Manx, a Celtic language
from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. The last native speaker of Manx died in
1974, leading to its near-extinction, but thanks to revitalization efforts,
there are now a few dozen first-language speakers, and a couple thousand who
speak Manx as a second language.

The update also includes Portuguese (Portugal), Tongan, Tibetan, Tahitian,
Venetian, Sicilian, Fijian, and Jamaican Patois.

The Google Translate app is available in the Apple App Store and the Google Play
store. It can translate text you paste in, as well as text appearing in photos.
It can also translate voice input as well as handwritten characters.




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