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May 14, 2010

Google Translate Adds Five New Languages



By Kelly McGuire, TMCnet Editor


Becoming more that just an Internet mogul in the United States, Google (News - Alert) continues to increasingly expand its horizons and open new business ventures and unique venues for ways to attract an even bigger user base.


And now, with Google's latest initiative , the Internet sensation has added five more alpha languages to its "alpha" language base on Google Translate, which was released in 2009.

Now, these five new - and unique - languages will be available while still at the 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," Google officials said in a blog post.

In addition, the company is working to merge these five languages from "alpha" status, just as they did with Persian in 2009.

"You can help us improve translation quality as well," company officials said, adding that - as a way to help - if anyone notices an incorrect translation, there's an option to click "contribute a better translation," where users can add their own translations, thus increasingly vocabulary and the capability to give their two cents, if needed.

And, for those really verse in a language, you can do even more.

"If you are a translator, then you can contribute translation memories with the Translator Toolkit ," Google officials said. "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 .


Kelly McGuire is a TMCnet Web editor, covering CRM and workforce technologies, and anchor of its daily TMC Newsroom video broadcast. Kelly also writes about eco-friendly "green" technologies and smart grids, compiling TMCnet's weekly e-Newsletters on those topics, as well as the cable industry. To read more of Kelly's articles, please visit her columnist page .

Edited by Kelly McGuire


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