Google Translate Brings Support for 13 New Language

Good, because Google’s now got you covered. Google Translate now supports the total of 103 languages. It is the result of a fruitful cooperation between human wit and robot multitasking. Google Translate so far has done approximately 200 million translated words which also received help from over 3 million people who contributed.

The story of how Google Translate came to be is actually quite interesting. The biggest problem with this kind of programs is the fact that a translation consists in more than translating the words. It enable users to translate information from one language to the other. It was launched in April 2006 using rule-based machine translations between English and Arabic, followed by translations between English and Russian in December 2006.

Google Translate has been one of the most useful services for Google in a long time. The search giant has updated its Breakdown Page, which displays the features supported by each language. “You can also share feedback directly from Translate.Google.com, so as you try out the new languages, we’d love to hear your suggestions”, the company said in a blog post.

British comedian Eddie Izzard proved that he was in no need of a translator back in 2007, however, when he used the language’s close relative, Old English, to buy himself a brown cow on a visit to the Dutch province.

As we scan the Web for billions of already translated texts, we use machine learning to identify statistical patterns at enormous scale, so our machines can “learn” the language.

Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto and Xhosa, which brings the number of supported languages to 103.

Despite there being fewer than 60,000 Gaelic speakers in Scotland as per the 2011 Census, the indigenous language is also spoken to some degree by almost 30,000 others, mostly in parts of Canada.