Google Translate achieves its 100th language milestone, includes Sindhi

BENGALURU: Saying 'hello' online in Sindhi just got easier as Google Translate will now speak Sindhi. Now, Sindhi speakers can type or handwrite a phrase on their phone or computer and it will be instantly translated into English, or vice versa.

"With over 26 million Sindhi speaking citizens around the world, introducing Sindhi to Google Translate will help the new generation of Sindhis enrich their knowledge about their community. It will also be helpful for tourists visiting India making it easier for English and Sindhi speakers to communicate with each other," said Sveta Kelman, Senior Program Manager, Google Translate.

Along with Sindhi, Google has introduced 12 other new languages— Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Pashto and Xhosa. According to the company release, this will help bring a combined 120 million new people to the billions who can already communicate with Translate all over the world.

The introduction of 13 new languages brings the total number of languages Google Translate supports to just over 100.

Google Translate launched in 2006 in Russian, Arabic and Chinese. Today it reaches over 500 million people around the world each month, and processes a million words a second.