Google Translate
Google Translate is a machine translation website from Google that can translate text between different languages. It can translate words, sentences, documents and web pages between any combination of 133 supported languages as of 11th May, 2022.[3] It was launched on April 28, 2006 and has always been free to use.[4]
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Type of site | Statistical and neural machine translation |
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Available in | 133 languages, see below |
Owner | |
URL | translate |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Users | Over 500 million people daily |
Launched | April 28, 2006 (as statistical machine translation)[1] November 15, 2016 (as neural machine translation)[2] |
Current status | Active |
Google Translate can do more than just show the translation of words. It can also show how to pronounce (say) the word using text-to-speech, and show the definition (meaning) like a dictionary. More recently, it also lets the community make changes or suggestions, for example, if the computer made a wrong translation. This is very much like how one can contribute to websites like Google Maps and Wikipedia.
Supported languages
As of June 2024, the following 133 languages are supported by Google Translate.[5]
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Assamese
- Aymara
- Azerbaijani
- Bambara
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bengali
- Bhojpuri
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chichewa
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Corsican
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dhivehi
- Dogri
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Ewe
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- Frisian
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Guarani
- Gujarati
- Haitian Creole
- Hausa
- Hawaiian
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hmong
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Ilocano
- Igbo
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Khmer
- Kinyarwanda
- Konkani
- Korean
- Krio
- Kurdish (Kurmanji)
- Kurdish (Sorani)
- Kyrgyz
- Lao
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Luganda
- Luxembourgish
- Macedonian
- Maithili
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Maori
- Marathi
- Meiteilon (Manipuri)
- Mongolian
- Myanmar (Burmese)
- Nepali
- Norwegian (Bokmål)
- Odia
- Oromo
- Pashto
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Quechua
- Romanian
- Russian
- Samoan
- Sanskrit
- Scots Gaelic
- Sepedi
- Serbian
- Shona
- Sindhi
- Sinhala
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali
- Sesotho
- Spanish
- Sundanese
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tajik
- Tamil
- Tatar
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tigrinya
- Tsonga
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Twi
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
- Xhosa
- Yiddish
- Yoruba
- Zulu
Languages in development and beta version
The following languages are not yet supported by Google Translate, but are available in the Translate Community. As of March 2024, there were 102 languages in development and 8 of them are in beta version.[6] In March 28, 2024, Google removed contribute feature.
- Acehnese
- Adyghe
- Afar BETA
- Ahirani
- Aragonese
- Avar
- Bagheli
- Baluchi
- Bangala
- Baoulé
- Bashkir
- Batak Toba
- Betawi
- Bodo BETA
- Breton
- Cantonese
- Chechen
- Cherokee
- Chhattisgarhi
- Chitonga
- Chittagonian
- Chuvash
- Deccani
- Dholuo (Luo)
- Dyula
- Dzongkha
- Edo
- Efik
- Esan
- Fon
- Fulani BETA
- Gagauz
- Garhwali
- Haryanvi
- Hiligaynon
- Inuktitut
- Isoko
- Kalaallisut
- Kamba
- Kanuri
- Kara-Kalpak
- Karachay-Balkar
- Kashmiri
- Kedah Malay (Malay (Kedah))
- Khakas
- Khorasani Turkic
- Kikuyu
- Kokborok
- Kumyk
- Kʼicheʼ
- Lakota
- Luba-Katanga (Luba)
- Madurese
- Magahi
- Marwari
- Mazanderani
- Minangkabau (Minang)
- Montenegrin
- Mossi (Mooré)
- Navajo
- Nepalbhasa BETA
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Northern Sami (Sami (North))
- Occitan
- Pampanga (Kapampangan)
- Pattani Malay
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Qashqai
- Rajasthani
- Rangpuri
- Romansh
- Sadri
- Salar
- Samogitian
- Sango
- Saraiki BETA
- Serrano
- Setswana (Tswana)
- Shor
- Siberian Tatar
- Sicilian
- Southern Altai
- Southern Ndebele (Ndebele (South))
- Surjapuri
- Swahili Congo
- Sylheti
- Tamazight (Tamazight (Tifinagh)) BETA
- Tibetan BETA
- Tiv
- Tok Pisin
- Tshiluba
- Tshivenda (Venda)
- Tswa
- Tswana
- Tuvinian
- Urhobo
- Urum
- Varhadi-Nagpuri
- Wolof
- Yakut
- Yucatec Maya BETA
- Zaza
- Zhuang
History of development
On 11th of May, 2022, Google Translate adds 24 new languages from around the world. Out of the 24 languages, 8 are from India. The newly supported languages are: Assamese, Aymara, Bambara, Bhojpuri, Dhivehi, Dogri, Ewe, Guarani, Ilocano, Konkani, Krio, Kurdish (Sorani), Lingala, Luganda, Maithili, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo, Oromo, Quechua, Sanskrit, Sepedi, Tigrinya, Tsonga, and Twi.[7][8]
References
- Orch, Franz (April 28, 2006). "Statistical machine translation live". Google Research Blog. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
- Turovsky, Barak (November 15, 2016). "Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate". The Keyword Google Blog. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
- About Google Translate Google
- Franz Josef Och (2006-04-28). "Statistical machine translation live". Google Research Blog.
- "See which features work with each language". Retrieved July 9, 2017.
- "Sign in - Google Accounts". accounts.google.com.
- "Google Translate gets support for 24 additional languages". GSMArena.com. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
- "Google I/O 2022: Google Translate adds support for 24 new languages including 8 Indian languages". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
Other websites
- Official website
- Google Translate Blog
- Translate Community
- Google Translate Help
- Inside Google Translate on Google's official channel at YouTube
- Teach You Backwards: An In-Depth Study of Google Translate for 172 Languages Archived 2019-12-24 at the Wayback Machine