Support for 9 More Languages Added to Google Translate

Posted by Sierra Monica B. in Internet on 09 1st, 2009 | no responses

Maybe all of the people using the Internet every day know how to use Google Translate, the free online service that can translate from a language to another not only words, or text paragraphs, but also entire web pages. You can enter your text in the Google Translate box and press the Translate button, using the service as a dictionary, or translate web pages via the web browser plugin.
If you don’t know what the language of the text is you can set the service to Detect Language automatically and it will not only recognize it, but will also translate it, without requiring you to press the button.
There’s also the Swap function that practically swaps between two languages you need the translation to be performed.

To do these, Google uses its own translation software based on statistical analysis, so, unlike other programs that offer more more accurate translations, Google Translate doesn’t use grammatical rules, therefore sometimes its translations are not the best.
Still, you can use the service to translate between different languages spoken worldwide.

Google has announced that now the software can translate between 51 languages, introducing nine new languages to the list, totalizing 2,550 language pairs. These are: Belarusian, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Macedonian, Irish, Welsh, Malay, Swahili and Yiddish.