Google Translate Blog
The official source for news on Google's translation technologies
Five more languages on translate.google.com
Thursday, May 13, 2010
At Google, we are always trying to make information more accessible, whether by adding
auto-captioning on YouTube
and
virtual keyboards to search
or by providing free translation of text, websites and documents with
Google Translate
. In 2009,
we announced
the addition of our first “alpha” language, Persian, on Google Translate. Today, we are excited to add five more alpha languages: Azerbaijani, Armenian, Basque, Urdu and Georgian — bringing the total number of languages on Google Translate to 57.
These languages are available while still in alpha status. You can expect translations to be less fluent than for our other languages, but they should still help you understand the multilingual web. We are working hard to “graduate” these new language out of alpha status, just as we did some time ago with Persian. You can help us improve translation quality as well. If you notice an incorrect translation, we invite you click "Contribute a better translation". If you are a translator, then you can contribute
translation memories
with the
Translator Toolkit
. This helps us build better machine translation systems especially for languages that are not well represented on the web.
Collectively, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Georgian and Urdu have roughly 100 million speakers. We hope that these speakers can now more easily access the entire multilingual web in their own language. Try translating these and other languages at
translate.google.com
. Here are some phrases from the new alpha languages to get you started:
Baietz lehenengoan
میں خوش قسمت محسوس کر رہا ہوں
բախտաւոր եմ զգում
Mən şanslıyam
იღბალს მივენდობი
Posted by Ashish Venugopal, Research Scientist
Labels
alpha languages
Android
api
BBC
Challenge
chrome
football
Google Goggles
Google Translate
Google Translate for Animals
I/O
integrations
Mobile
new languages
partnerships
Research
search
Search Stories
text-to-speech
toolbar
Translate Community
translation quality
Translator Toolkit
transliteration
Wear
website translation element
Wikipedia
Youtube
Archive
2016
May
Apr
Feb
2015
Dec
Oct
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Feb
Jan
2014
Dec
Oct
Jul
2013
Dec
Nov
Sep
Aug
Jul
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
2012
Dec
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2011
Nov
Oct
Aug
Jun
May
Apr
Feb
Jan
2010
Dec
Nov
Oct
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
2009
Dec
Nov
Feed
Google
on
Follow @google
Follow
Useful Links
About Translate
Translate Community
Translate for Android
Translate for iOS
Give us feedback in our
Product Forums
.
Follow