Google has added support for 13 new languages viz Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto and Xhosa. Launched 10 years ago, Google Translate says that it now covers 99% of the online population.
The addition of the 13 new languages brings the total number of supported languages to 103. Google said that the addition of these languages brings Translate to 120 million new people around the world. Google Translate is a free tool that allows anyone to translate information from one language to another. You can use the Translate app on your Android or iOS phone to type in over 100 different languages or hand write phrases in 90 languages.
Sveta Kelman, Senior Program Manager, Google Translate said in a blog post
For each new language, we make our translations better over time, both by improving our algorithms and systems and by learning from your translations with Translate Community. No matter what language you speak, we hope today’s update makes it easier to communicate with millions of new friends and break language barriers one conversation at a time.
In July last year, Google expanded instant visual translation support to 20 additional languages. Google had announced in December last year that it will release a new feature called Tap to Translate that allows the instant translation of any text on the Android phone.