Google added thirteen new languages to their Translate programme on Wednesday 17 February 2016, making a total of 103 languages so that 99% of the world’s population can now be reached through this medium.
The 13 languages added to Translate are Amharic (Ethiopia), Corsican (Island of Corsica, France), Frisian (Netherlands and Germany), Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan), Hawaiian (Hawaii), Kurdish (Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria), Luxembourgish (Luxembourg), Samoan (Samoa and American Samoa), Scots Gaelic (Scottish highlands, UK), Shona (Zimbabwe), Sindhi (Pakistan and India), Pashto (Afghanistan and Pakistan) and Xhosa (South Africa).
Google Translate has become immensely helpful in not only translating texts but also allowing one to record spoken phrases and translate them in real time on the screen and receive a fairly accurate translation.
In October 2012 the launch of a new mobile app for a Luxembourgish dictionary was celebrated. This was following the launch of the Dictionary of Luxembourgish authors (www.autorenlexikon.lu; www.dictionnaire-auteurs.lu ), in October 2011. Read more on this here.
The basis for the first Luxembourgish spellchecker with 125,000 word forms was compiled by Jérôme Lulling between 2000 and 2002.
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