Google Translate now supports 103 languages, covers 99% of Web users

Google Translate now supports 103 languages, covers 99% of Web users
February 18, 2016 - 11:02 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Google on Wednesday, February 17 announced Google Translate has added support for 13 additional languages, bringing the total to 103. By the company’s estimate, the service now covers 99 percent of the online population, VentureBeat reports.

The 13 new languages include Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto, and Xhosa. Google says this helps bring “a combined 120 million new people to the billions who can already communicate with Translate all over the world.”

Google Translate first launched in April 2006, using rule-based machine translation between English and Arabic. Translation between English and Russian followed in December 2006, and the addition of new languages ramped up in 2007. Google Translate has thus passed the 100 languages mark in just under 10 years.

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