Google, the global search engine announced that its Translate service would now supports 13 new global languages including Sindhi and Pashto.
With the new entry, the total number of languages that Google Translate supports just crossed over 100, "making it simpler for people, no matter what language they speak, to communicate with one another," the company said in a statement.
According to India Today, "The Internet is transforming the way people around the world communicate, learn, live and work, but the Web is only useful if it's in a language you can understand. By bringing more languages online with Google Translate, we hope more people can have a relevant and useful experience on the Web," Sveta Kelman, Senior Program Manager, Google Translate said.
Along with Sindhi and Pashto the other languages added are Hawaiian, Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Scots Gaelic, Shona, and Xhosa.
Launched in 2006 in Russian, Arabic and Chinese, Google Translate reaches out to over 500 million people around the world each month, and processes a million words a second. It is also integrated into Google products like Chrome, Search, Gmail and YouTube.
Google said "after almost 10 years, with today’s update, we now offer 103 languages that cover 99 percent of the online population."
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