Google Translate Gets Support For 24 More Languages, Including 8 Indian Languages

Last Updated on May 13, 2022 by Anu Joy

Google has announced support for 24 more languages in the Google Translate ecosystem at I/O 2022. Google Translate can now grasp a total of 133 of the world’s most commonly used languages. The company stated that around 300 million people speak these newly added languages in India, Africa, Nepal, and other countries.

According to Google, these languages are added using Zero-Shot Machine Translation, in which a machine learning model only observes monolingual text and learns to translate into another language without ever seeing an example. So it isn’t perfect, and the company will continue to improve the models to provide the same experience as with other languages such as French or Spanish translation.

For the first time, Google translated Indigenous languages of the Americas (Quechua, Guarani, and Aymara) and an English dialect (Sierra Leonean Krio).

Here’s a complete list of the new languages now available in Google Translate:

• Assamese (used by about 25 million people in Northeast India)
• Aymara (used by about two million people in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru)
• Bambara (used by about 14 million people in Mali)
• Bhojpuri (used by about 50 million people in Northern India, Nepal, and Fiji)
• Dhivehi (used by about 300,000 people in the Maldives)
• Dogri (used by about three million people in Northern India)
• Ewe (used by about seven million people in Ghana and Togo)
• Guarani (used by about seven million people in Paraguay and Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil)
• Ilocano (used by about 10 million people in Northern Philippines)
• Konkani (used by about two million people in Central India)
• Krio (used by about four million people in Sierra Leone)
• Kurdish (Sorani) (used by about 15 million people in Iraq and Iran)
• Lingala (used by about 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 (used by about 20 million people in Uganda and Rwanda)
• Maithili (used by about 34 million people in Northern India)
• Meiteilon (Manipuri) (used by about two million people in Northeast India)
• Mizo (used by about 830,000 people in Northeast India)
• Oromo (used by about 37 million people in Ethiopia and Kenya)
• Quechua (used by about 10 million people in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and surrounding countries)
• Sanskrit (used by about 20,000 people in India)
• Sepedi (used by about 14 million people in South Africa)
• Tigrinya (used by about eight million people in Eritrea and Ethiopia)
• Tsonga (used by about seven million people in Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe)
• Twi (used by about 11 million people in Ghana)