
What you need to know
- Google Translate's latest expansion covers languages spoken by over 614 million people, about 8% of the global population.
- The new languages range from widely spoken ones to indigenous dialects and even those without current native speakers.
- Google's PaLM 2 language model has been crucial in adding languages related to Hindi and French creoles.
- About a quarter of the new additions are African languages like Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda, and Wolof.