Internet search giant Google on Tuesday announced the expansion of its translation services to include five more Indian languages—Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu.
“Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian subcontinent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages—Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu,” said Ashish Venugopal, research scientist, Google. “In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we’ve launched 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63,” he wrote in a Google blog.
Venugopal said one can expect translations in these alpha languages to be less fluent, with more untranslated words than mature languages.
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