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Official Google Blog: Google Translate now speaks 51 languages
We spend a lot of time thinking about how information travels around the globe. After all, there are Googlers living and working in dozens of countries — and we're pretty sure our products are used in many more. So we're familiar with the need to translate information across borders, and we've ...
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Google Translate Gets More Worldly, Adds Nine Languages
TechCrunch — ... in many of its translations, the site is undoubtedly an incredibly useful tool when trying to interpret a word, phrase or entire site in a different language. Today, Google has added nine more languages to Google Translate: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish, bringing the number of languages that are supported up to 51. ...

Google Translates 9 New Languages
WebProNews Feed — ... "We spend a lot of time thinking about how information travels around the globe. After all, there are Googlers living and working in dozens of countries — and we're pretty sure our products are used in many more," says Google Translate Product Manager Jeff Chin. "So we're familiar with the need to translate information across borders, and we've been working hard to build the technology to enable you to do just that." ...

Oy gevalt! Google Translate adds 9 new languages, including Yiddish
Download Squad — ... Google has added 9 new languages to its web-based translation service. That means Google Translate now supports 51 different languages, and 2550 language pairs. ...

Remains of the Day: It's Only Rock and Roll Edition [For What It's Worth]
Lifehacker — ... Download Squad finds esoteric mentions of Chrome OS in nightly builds of Chrome. [Download Squad] Google Translate now speaks 51 languages Google Translate introduces nine new languages today, including Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. [Official Google Blog] ...

Google Translate Adds More Foreign Languages
Search Engine Journal — ... ,  some of you might find yourself at one point in time, needing to translate texts  in those languages and so Google has added them to the languages supported by Google Translate.With these new languages, the number of international languages being supported by Google now totals to 51. This is also equivalent to 2550 language pairs and include all 23 languages used in the EU countries. ...

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GMSV — Off Topic Posted by John Murrell on September 1st, 2009 at 12:02 am | Categorized as Off Topic USOpen.org is streaming live video from multiple matches at a time for your work-hour viewing pleasure; Google Translate has just added nine new languages , including Belarusian, Malay and Yiddish; and, for geeks, this Unicode table provides a translation for all those obscure characters. Share/Save/Bookmark Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Subscribe via RSS Subscribe via ...

Google Translate add 9 new lauguages; speaks total 51 languages
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google added nine new languages to Google Translate: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. That total to 51 supported languages, and 2550 language pairs — including all ...

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