Awadhi, Marwadi and Cantonese - Google Translate has learned 110 more languages thanks to artificial intelligence

Google has added 110 new languages to its translator - previously it supported only 133 languages, so this is a great progress for the service.

To train, Google specialists used the PaLM 2 AI language model, and it is noted that the process went especially well with languages ​​that were connected to those that the translator knew before. For example, languages ​​"close to Hindi, such as Avadhi and Marwadi, and French creoles, such as Seychelles Creole and Mauritian Creole"

The updated list of languages ​​also includes Cantonese, which "has long been one of the most desired new languages ​​for Google Translate." This is one of the dialects that appeared in Canton (French name Guangzhou) - often identified as a separate language of the Chinese Sino-Tibetan language family and uses traditional Chinese script (unlike Mandarin language, standardization of Cantonese is not complete, which complicates its study).

Isaac Caswell from Google in a blog post adds that "about a quarter of the new Google Translate languages ​​come from Africa".

Also, the majority of languages ​​now supported by the translator are spoken by at least one million people, while "several," according to Caswell, are used by hundreds of millions of people for communication.