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 to it, bringing the total number of supported languages to 133.
However, Google has never added as many languages to Google Translate as it does now. Google has it Advertise That Google Translate gets “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 and Microsoft Translator supports 135 languages. This gives Google the upper hand among the top three players.
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Google Translate now supports a total of 243 languages.
According to Google, it achieved this feat with the help of the company’s PaLM 2 large language model. Some of the newly supported languages include Afar, Cantonese, Manx, Nkowi, Punjabi (Shahmukh), Amazigh (Amazigh), and Tok Pisin.
Goog says 110 languages newly added”They represent over 614 million speakers, opening translations to approximately 8% of the world’s population.”
Google also added that,Some of them are major global languages spoken by more than 100 million people. Others are spoken by small indigenous communities, a few of which have almost no native speakers but active revitalization efforts.”
A quarter of the 110 languages come from Africa, including Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda, and Wolof, making this the largest expansion of African languages in Google Translate yet.
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