Google Translate adds 5 new languages, Marathi one of them

Continuing to add more languages to its Google Translate service, the search giant today announced that it had added five more languages to its repetoire, and guess what one of them is Maharashtra’s regional language Marathi.

In its post on its official blog, Google said that it had added the five languages to Google Translate which are spoken by around 183 million people.

“Marathi is spoken in India and has 73 million native speakers. Google Translate already supports several other Indian languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu,” the blog post said.

[caption id=“attachment_766661” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Screengrab of the Google Translate Marathi page.[/caption]

The other languages added along with Marathi are Bosnian, Cebuano (spoken in Philippines) , Hmong (an Asian language spoken in China, Vietnam) and Javanese (second most spoken language in Indonesia)

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However, don’t go expecting to translate too much on the Marathi feature right now with Google cautioning that apart from Bosnian, all the other languages are ‘alpha’ or put more simply it may not work very well.

So if you type “I cannot understand what you’re saying” in English, Google Translate elegantly makes it “I am saying, why can’t you understand”.

So preferably if you have a complex sentence you want to translate from any language to Marathi, Google Translate may not work perfectly. But fret not, Google says they’re working to perfect it.