GOOGLE TRANSLATE ADDS 24 NEW LANGUAGES
Google Translate has added 24 languages to its translation service, bringing the total number to 133. For many of (1) , Translate is an indispensable tool. It provides a convenient, (2) and quick way of comprehending vocabulary and texts in other languages. The 24 new languages are spoken (3) more than 300 million people worldwide. Among them are the (4) Aymara, Guarani and Quechua languages of the Americas. Google rolled out its first translation service in 2006 and has continually added to its (5) . Google said it still has a way to go to be more (6) . There are around 7,000 languages worldwide that Translate doesn't provide support for.
Translate needs to analyze a large (7) of linguistic data to be able to support a language. Isaac Caswell, a Google Translate scientist, told journalists about how advances (8) technology have facilitated adding the new languages. He said: "Up until a (9) of years ago, it simply was not technologically possible to add languages like these, which are what we call a low resource - meaning that there are not very many text resources out there for them." He explained that Google (10) to support languages used by large populations. One of these is Lingala, spoken (11) 45 million people across Central Africa. It also wants to render assistance for indigenous languages that are often (12) by technology.
