 "Google Translate adds 24 new languages including Bhojpuri, Assamese, Sanskrit, Maithili and many more")
As real-time machine and app based translation becomes more commonly required, Google announced at their I/O developer’s conference that it has added 24 new languages to Google Translate. Of the new 24 additions, eight languages are from India.
- Assamese, which is used by about 25 million people in Northeast India
- Bhojpuri, which is used by about 50 million people in northern India, Nepal and Fiji
- Dogri, which is used by about 3 million people in northern India
- Konkani, which is used by about 2 million people in Central India
- Maithili, which is used by about 34 million people in northern India
- Meiteilon or Manipuri, which is used by about 2 million people in Northeast India
- Mizo, which is used by about 830,000 people in Northeast India
- Sanskrit, which is used by about 20,000 people in India
Other than Indian languages, Google Translate now also supports:
- Aymara (used by about two million people across some Latin American countries)
- Bambara (used by about 14 million people in Mali)
- Dhivehi (used by about 300,000 people in the Maldives)
- Ewe (used by about seven million people in Ghana and Togo)
- Guarani (used by about seven million people in several South American countries)
- Ilocano (used by about 10 million people in the northern Philippines)
- Krio (used by about four million people in Sierra Leone)
- Kurdish or Sorani (used by about eight million people, mostly in Iraq & parts of Turkey)
- Lingala, (used by about 45 million people in central and eastern Africa)
- Luganda (used by about 20 million people in Uganda and Rwanda)
- Oromo (used by about 37 million people in Ethiopia and Kenya)
- Quechua (used by about 10 million people in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and surrounding countries)
- Sepedi (used by about 14 million people in South Africa)
- Tigrinya (used by about eight million people in Eritrea and Ethiopia)
- Tsonga (used by about seven million people in southern Africa)
- Twi (used by about 11 million people in Ghana)
Speaking at the event, Isaac Caswell, a Google Translate Research Scientist said, “This ranges from smaller languages, like Mizo spoken by people in the northeast of India — by about 800,000 people — up to very large world languages like Lingala spoken by around 45 million people across Central Africa.”
