Google Translate is a pretty great tool,
but it's only useful if it actually works where you need it. Today it
works in even more places, as Google has updated both the web service
and the Android app with nine new languages, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
- Hausa (Harshen Hausa) - Nigeria and neighboring countries
- Igbo (Asụsụ Igbo) - Nigeria
- Yoruba (èdè Yorùbá) - Nigeria and neighboring countries
- Somali (Af-Soomaali) - Somalia and other countries around the Horn of Africa
- Zulu (isiZulu) spoken in South Africa and other south-western African countries
- Mongolian (Монгол хэл) - Mongolia
- Nepali (नेपाली) - Nepal and India
- Punjabi language (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) (Gurmukhi script) - India and Pakistan
- Maori (Te Reo Māori) - New Zealand
All together, the updated languages cover more than 225 million
native speakers around the world. The new translations will work on the
web (including searches and voice searches from Google Now, see above)
and in the more robust Google Translate app, no updates necessary.
Unfortunately the Google Translate app's awesome Conversation Mode still
takes a lot more work, and none of the new languages are supported
there.
One last thing: Maori was enabled thanks to help from a team of dedicated volunteers. This is significant because Maori is an endangered language, with approximately 30,000 regular speakers. Pai i meatia, iwi.
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