Google Translate gets support for 24 new languages including Assamese, Mizo and Manipuri

Notably, the other Indian Languages which were included in the lists are Sanskrit, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Dogri etc.

Time8 Webdesk
May 12, 2022
10:02 am

Guwahati: The language-translation tool of Google, ‘Google Translate’ has been updated, a total of 24 new languages including Assamese, Mizo and Manipuri languages of North East India.

In total, Google Translate now supports a total of 133 used around the globe.

Notably, the other Indian Languages which were included in the lists are Sanskrit, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Dogri etc.

The Cupertino-based tech giant highlighted that the newly added languages are used by over 300 million people globally. For example, the company said that Assamese is spoken by around 25 million people in Northeast India and Lingala is spoken by over 45 million people across Central Africa.

Here are the full lists of 24 new languages added to Google Translate

–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)

According to an official blog post by Google about these new languages, Google said, they have been added using Zero-Shot Machine Translation, where a machine learning model only sees monolingual text. The Zero-Shot Machine Translation basically learns to translate into another language without ever seeing an example.

“While this technology is impressive, it isn’t perfect,” Google said in its blogpost.