![]() ![]() If Google were trying to add languages in descending order of number of speakers, they should have added such languages as Indonesian, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi and Vietnamese. Moreover, in several cases the demand for translation into the language is probably small: most Scandinavians, for example, are comfortable in English. The others have a modest number of speakers. Hindi is the exception, with over 300 million speakers. The interesting thing about the languages added is that they do not for the most part represent the next most widely spoken languages. These comprise less than one-half of one percent of the world's languages, but their speakers include more than half of the world's population. With the languages previously available (Arabic, Chinese (traditional and simplified writing), Dutch, English, French,German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish), Google now handles 23 languages. ![]() Google Translate has added ten languages to its repertoire: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech,Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian,Polish, Romanian and Swedish. ![]()
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