Google Translate adds 110 new languages using AI, breaking down communication barriers for millions around the world.

The new languages are:

Abkhaz
Acehnese
Acholi
Afar
Alur
Avar
Awadhi
Balinese
Baluchi
Baoulé
Bashkir
Batak Karo
Batak Simalungun
Batak Toba
Bemba
Betawi
Bikol
Breton
Buryat
Cantonese
Chamorro
Chechen
Chuukese
Chuvash
Crimean Tatar
Dari
Dinka
Dombe
Dyula
Dzongkha
Faroese
Fijian
Fon
Friulian
Fulani
Ga
Hakha Chin
Hiligaynon
Hunsrik
Iban
Jamaican Patois
Jingpo
Kalaallisut
Kanuri
Kapampangan
Khasi
Kiga
Kikongo
Kituba
Kokborok
Komi
Latgalian
Ligurian
Limburgish
Lombard
Luo
Madurese
Makassar
Malay (Jawi)
Mam
Manx
Marshallese
Marwadi
Mauritian Creole
Meadow Mari
Minang
Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca)
Ndau
Ndebele (South)
Nepalbhasa (Newari)
NKo
Nuer
Occitan
Ossetian
Pangasinan
Papiamento
Portuguese (Portugal)
Punjabi (Shahmukhi)
Q’eqchi’
Romani
Rundi
Sami (North)
Sango
Santali
Seychellois Creole
Shan
Sicilian
Silesian
Susu
Swati
Tahitian
Tamazight
Tamazight (Tifinagh)
Tetum
Tibetan
Tiv
Tok Pisin
Tongan
Tswana
Tulu
Tumbuka
Tuvan
Udmurt
Venda
Venetian
Waray
Wolof
Yakut
Yucatec Maya
Zapotec

  • kolorafa@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    No language is useless, please don’t say that, some are just smaller

    Yes, sorry, I didn’t check other languages, as in the list there most likely are languages that are still heavily used and/or official country languages.

    Initially I was under the impression that they didn’t get added before because all of them are not official ones and/or used anymore like in the case of “Silesian” that I did check and confirmed that should be avoided as much as possible. It’s a disservice to new generation of people that still (partial) learn it in their own while growing in that region. Then those people go to different region inside their own country and (because they or the region “use that variant”) then have troubles with communicating.

    You have clear example with Poland and Germany. Example, imagine you live in France, you want to go to Poland (or Germany), you go to school (or get some lessons) to Learn Polish (or Germany), you drive to some random region of Poland (and Germany) and … surprise, only in that “small” region they talk not with Polish (or Germany) but their own (one of dozens) variant that they call “Silesian” (or Bavarian). And even if you go and learn “Silesian” (or Bavarian) it most likely will only help maybe partially…