Google has added 110 new languages to its online translator Google Translate, the company said in a press release.
“We are using artificial intelligence technologies to expand the number of languages used. With our massive PaLM 2 language model, we will be adding 110 new languages to Google Translate, the largest expansion in our history,” the statement said.
The company clarified that the languages added to the translator are spoken by more than 614 million people, or about 8% of the world’s population. About a quarter of these are in African languages. In the future, Google hopes to create an artificial intelligence model that will support the 1,000 most common languages around the world.
The online translator’s database also includes languages spoken in Russia (as well as in annexed Crimea): Avar, Bashkir, Buryat, Chechen, Chuvash, Ossetian, Udmurt, Tuvan, Yakut, Crimean Tatar, Komi, and Meadow Mari.
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