Google Translate supports 24 new languages

During the Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it was making Google Translate even more powerful. However, to what extent this is useful for numerous users remains to be seen. Many common languages ​​are already supported by Google Translate, the 24 new ones are certainly “niche” for many – those who speak the language and/or want to translate the will of course see it differently.

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Over 300 million people speak the newly added languages ​​- such as Mizo, spoken by around 800,000 people in far northeast India, and Lingala, spoken by over 45 million people in central Africa. As part of this update, indigenous languages ​​of the Americas (Quechua, Guarani and Aymara) and an English dialect (Krio from Sierra Leone) were also added to Google Translate for the first time.

Here is a full list of the new languages ​​now available in Google Translate:

  • Assamese, spoken by about 25 million people in northeastern India
  • Aymara spoken by about two million people in Bolivia, Chile and Peru
  • Bambara, spoken by about 14 million people in Mali
  • Bhojpuri, spoken by about 50 million people in northern India, Nepal and Fiji
  • Dhivehi, spoken by around 300,000 people in the Maldives
  • Dogri, spoken by about three million people in North India
  • Ewe, spoken by around seven million people in Ghana and Togo
  • Guarani spoken by about seven million people in Paraguay and Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil
  • Ilocano, spoken by about 10 million people in the north of the Philippines
  • Konkani, spoken by about two million people in central India
  • Krio, spoken by about four million people in Sierra Leone
  • Kurdish (Sorani), used by about eight million people, mostly in Iraq
  • Lingala spoken by approximately 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, spoken by about 20 million people in Uganda and Rwanda
  • Maithili, spoken by about 34 million people in northern India
  • Meiteilon (Manipuri), spoken by about two million people in northeastern India
  • Mizo, is spoken by about 830,000 people in northeastern India
  • Oromo, spoken by about 37 million people in Ethiopia and Kenya
  • Quechua, spoken by about 10 million people in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and surrounding countries
  • Sanskrit, used by about 20,000 people in India
  • Sepedi, spoken by around 14 million people in South Africa
  • Tigrinya used by about eight million people in Eritrea and Ethiopia
  • Tsonga, spoken by about seven million people in Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
  • Twi, spoken by about 11 million people in Ghana

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