Google launched Google Translate in 2006. Since then, the company has slowly and steadily added support for more languages ​​to the platform. Last month, the company added support for 24 new languages, bringing the total number of supported languages ​​to 133.
However, Google didn’t add as many languages ​​to Google Translate as it does now. to announce that Google Translate “gets”The biggest expansion everThe company is adding support for 110 new languages, bringing the total number of supported languages ​​to 243.
In comparison, Apple Translate supports 20 languages ​​while Microsoft Translator supports 135 languages. This gives Google the upper hand among the top 3 players.
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Google Translate now supports a total of 243 languages
According to Google, this feat was achieved with the help of the company’s large PaLM 2 language model. Newly supported languages ​​include Afar, Cantonese, Manx, Enko, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Tamazit (Amazigh) and Tok Pisin.
Google says 110 new languages ​​added”They represent more than 614 million speakers and provide translation for about 8% of the world’s population.”
Google also added that “Some of these languages ​​are major world languages ​​spoken by more than 100 million people. Others are spoken by small indigenous communities, and some have almost no native speakers, but there are active efforts to revive them.”
A quarter of the 110 languages ​​come from Africa, including Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda and Wolof, marking the largest addition to African languages ​​to date in Google Translate.
