Google Translate adds support for 24 new languages, Sorani Kurdish is One of the new additions

Google is adding support for 24 new languages to its Translate tool, the company announced today during its I/O 2022 developer conference. 

Among the newly available languages Sorani Kurdish is One of the new additions.

Google noted that it would keep improving the technology so that it can deliver the same experience it does with languages like Spanish and German.

According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the expansion allows the company to cover languages spoken by more than 300 million people and brings the total number of languages supported by Translate to 133.

Google Translate was launched in April 2006. It provides online translation from and to more than a hundred languages. It added Kurdish language’s Kurmanji dialect, which is spoken by the majority of Kurds, in February 2016. 

While Kurmanji is written with a Latin alphabet, Sorani has its own script, similar to Arabic. Sorani is the official dialect of the Kurdistan Regional Government. There are numerous Kurdish dialects – including Sorani, Kurmanji, Zazaki, Gorani, and Kalhouri.



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