Google Translate adds Bhojpuri, Assamese, Maithili & 5 more Indian languages

Google Translate adds Bhojpuri, Assamese, Maithili & 5 more Indian languages

By Sanjay Maurya

Google Translate Website

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On Wednesday (May 11) Google announced that Assamese has finally been added to Google Translate along with seven other Indian languages, including Mizo and Meiteilon from Manipur. Google officials said that in the latest update where they added 24 new languages ​​to Google Translate, Sanskrit was the most requested language.

Google officials also said that the first languages ​​of Northeast India are being added. In 24 new languages, eight newly added languages ​​are Sanskrit, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Mizo, and Meiteilon (Manipuri).

📢 Announced at #GoogleIO: 8 new Indian languages are coming to Google Translate.

24 new languages have been added to Google Translate, including Assamese, Bhojpuri, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo and Sanskrit. pic.twitter.com/QMbHKwUwMp

— Google India (@GoogleIndia) May 11, 2022

The eight new Indian languages to be added soon include:

1. Assamese, is used by about 25 million people in Northeast India
2. Bhojpuri, used by about 50 million people in northern India, Nepal, and Fiji
3. Dogri, used by about 3 million people in northern India
4. Konkani, used by about 2 million people in Central India
5. Maithili, used by about 34 million people in northern India
6. Meiteilon (Manipuri), used by about 2 million people in Northeast India
7. Mizo, used by about 830,000 people in Northeast India
8. Sanskrit is used by about 20,000 people in India

This brings the overall number of Indian languages supported by the service to 19. The statement was made late Wednesday night at the annual Google conference I/O. All of the languages added in the update will only be supported in the text translation feature, but the company plans to add voice to text, camera mode, and other capabilities soon. “We’re working on them,” Caswell (senior software engineer, Google Research) said, “but they’re not yet supported for all of these languages.”

Here’s the complete list of a new languages: –

1. Assamese
2. Aymara
3. Bambara
4. Bhojpuri
5. Dhivehi
6. Dogri
7. Ewe
8. Guarani
9. Ilocano
10. Konkani
11. Krio
12. Kurdish (Sorani)
13. Lingala
14. Luganda
15. Maithili
16. Meiteilon (Manipuri)
17. Mizo
18. Oromo
19. Quechua
20. Sanskrit
21. Sepedi
22. Tigrinya
23. Tsonga
24. Twi

We don’t know when the languages will be available in Google Translate but expect them to gradually roll out to the service at a later date.

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