Google has announced a significant enhancement to its Translate service.
Google Translate now supports 110 new languages.
This expansion is powered by Google's PaLM 2 large language model.
In a move to bridge global linguistic divides, Google has announced a significant enhancement to its Translate service. Leveraging the capabilities of AI, Google Translate now supports 110 new languages, marking its most expansive update yet.
This expansion, driven by Google’s PaLM 2 large language model, underscores a commitment to inclusivity and accessibility. Let’s delve into the details.
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According to Google, the new languages represent more than 614 million speakers, opening up translations for around 8% of the world’s population. Some are major world languages with over 100 million speakers. Others are spoken by small communities of Indigenous people, and a few have almost no native speakers but active revitalisation efforts.
A significant portion, about a quarter, are African languages such as Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda, and Wolof, marking Google Translate’s most extensive expansion of African language support to date.
The new languages are:
- Abkhaz
- Acehnese
- Acholi
- Afar
- Alur
- Avar
- Awadhi
- Balinese
- Baluchi
- Baoulé
- Bashkir
- Batak Karo
- Batak Simalungun
- Batak Toba
- Bemba
- Betawi
- Bikol
- Breton
- Buryat
- Cantonese
- Chamorro
- Chechen
- Chuukese
- Chuvash
- Crimean Tatar
- Dari
- Dinka
- Dombe
- Dyula
- Dzongkha
- Faroese
- Fijian
- Fon
- Friulian
- Fulani
- Ga
- Hakha Chin
- Hiligaynon
- Hunsrik
- Iban
- Jamaican Patois
- Jingpo
- Kalaallisut
- Kanuri
- Kapampangan
- Khasi
- Kiga
- Kikongo
- Kituba
- Kokborok
- Komi
- Latgalian
- Ligurian
- Limburgish
- Lombard
- Luo
- Madurese
- Makassar
- Malay (Jawi)
- Mam
- Manx
- Marshallese
- Marwadi
- Mauritian Creole
- Meadow Mari
- Minang
- Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca)
- Ndau
- Ndebele (South)
- Nepalbhasa (Newari)
- NKo
- Nuer
- Occitan
- Ossetian
- Pangasinan
- Papiamento
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Punjabi (Shahmukhi)
- Q’eqchi’
- Romani
- Rundi
- Sami (North)
- Sango
- Santali
- Seychellois Creole
- Shan
- Sicilian
- Silesian
- Susu
- Swati
- Tahitian
- Tamazight
- Tamazight (Tifinagh)
- Tetum
- Tibetan
- Tiv
- Tok Pisin
- Tongan
- Tswana
- Tulu
- Tumbuka
- Tuvan
- Udmurt
- Venda
- Venetian
- Waray
- Wolof
- Yakut
- Yucatec Maya
- Zapotec
The tech giant mentioned that it will support even more language varieties and spelling conventions over time.
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