Google Translate update adds support for 110 new languages

Google Translate is one of the most popular language translation apps across the world, and one of the primary reasons for this is the applications large collection of languages that you can translate between. Many of these languages can also be entirely downloaded on your smartphone for offline translation, making the app a really handy tool, especially when you are overseas. Now, Translate is set to get even better.

Google has now announced that Google Translate now supports 110 new languages in the app, thanks to artificial intelligence. To power the new languages, Translate is using the PaLM 2 AI language model. The model plays a key role in training the software to understand more languages, including multiple languages that are quite similar.

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Hindi and Awadhi, for instance, which sound very similar, are now more easier to tell apart for Google Translate. This also extends abroad, as French Creoles like Seychellois Creole and Mauritian Creole are both now officially supported.

Which are the new languages supported?

The new supported languages include Afar, a tonal language spoken in Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Manx, the Celtic language of the Isle of Man, NKo, a standardised form of the West African Manding languages, and Shahmukhi Punjabi, which is variety of Punjabi written in Perso-Arabic script, very commonly in use in Pakistan.

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The update also now supports Cantonese, one of the most requested languages over the years, but also one that was very hard to detect due to overlaps with Mandarin. Google added that about 25 per cent of these are African languages, each of which are spoken by millions across the globe.

The new update will come to Android phones and iPhones soon, and will likely be rolled out in phases, so don’t worry if you cannot access the new languages right away.