Tech giant Google has revealed that it has added 24 new languages, ten of which are African to its Google Translate platform.
The new includes are in Africa, including Lingala – Democratic Republic of Congo, Twi – Ghana, and Tigrinya – Eritrea.
Others are languages from Togo, Sierra Leone, Mali, South Africa, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Namibia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents, and websites from one language into another.
The US-based company through Isaac Caswell, a senior software engineer, Google Translate, said the new addition is aimed at helping those whose languages “aren’t represented in most technology”,
“For years, Google Translate has helped break down language barriers and connect communities all over the world …this is also a technical milestone for Google Translate,” Caswell added.
See the new languages below:
- Assamese, used by about 25 million people in Northeast India
- Aymara, used by about two million people in Bolivia, Chile and Peru
- Bambara, used by about 14 million people in Mali
- Bhojpuri, used by about 50 million people in northern India, Nepal and Fiji
- Dhivehi, used by about 300,000 people in the Maldives
- Dogri, used by about three million people in northern India
- Ewe, used by about seven million people in Ghana and Togo
- Guarani, used by about seven million people in Paraguay and Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil
- Ilocano, used by about 10 million people in northern Philippines
- Konkani, used by about two million people in Central India
- Krio, used by about four million people in Sierra Leone
- Kurdish (Sorani), used by about eight million people, mostly in Iraq
- Lingala, used by about 45 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo,
- Central African Republic, Angola and the Republic of South Sudan
- Luganda, used by about 20 million people in Uganda and Rwanda
- Maithili, used by about 34 million people in northern India
- Meiteilon (Manipuri), used by about two million people in Northeast India
- Mizo, used by about 830,000 people in Northeast India
- 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
- Sanskrit, used by about 20,000 people in India
- 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 Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
- Twi, used by about 11 million people in Ghana
The new additions make it 133 the number of languages it can interpret using its algorithms.