Google Translate adds five new languages

This week, Google added another five languages to the Google Translate service and with it enabled access to web content for millions more users.

It's been four years since Google added new languages to Translate. The five new ones include Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur. Most people will probably be learning these languages exist today, but they are spoken by more than 75 million people around the world. By adding them, Google has increased the number of languages supported by Translate to 108.

Support across the Translate services varies for the five new languages. All of them are supported for text and website translation, but virtual keyboard input only extends to Kinyarwanda, Tatar, and Uyghur for now. Read more...