google: Google Translate gets support for 24 more languages: Here’s the complete list – Times of India

Google says, “For years, Google Translate has helped break down language barriers and connect communities all over the world.” And most of will agree with this. As there would few who have not used this nifty language translation feature ever. Google now plans to take Google Translate to more number of people with the aim to target at those languages who it says, “aren’t represented in most technology”.
Google has added 24 new languages to Translate. With this, Google Translate now supports a total of 133 launguages across the globe. According to the company, this is also a technical milestone for Google Translate. These are the first languages that it claims it has added using Zero-Shot Machine Translation, where a machine learning model only sees monolingual text — meaning, it learns to translate into another language without ever seeing an example. But Google does have a disclimer here: “While this technology is impressive, it isn’t perfect. And we’ll keep improving these models to deliver the same experience you’re used to with a Spanish or German translation, for example.”
Over 300 million people use these newly-added languages — like Mizo, spoken by around 800,000 people in the far northeast of India, and Lingala, spoken by over 45 million people across Central Africa. As part of this update, Indigenous languages of the Americas (Quechua, Guarani and Aymara) and an English dialect (Sierra Leonean Krio) have also been added to Translate for the first time.
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 eight million people, mostly in Iraq
● 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
The company also has a message for users: If you want to help us support your language in a future update, contribute evaluations or translations through Translate Contribute.