The latest move is the biggest ever to spread the languages. Until now, Google Translate had 133 languages and this number will increase to 243 after the addition. the new languages being added are spoken by more than 614 million people worldwide, which represents about 8 percent of the world’s population. While the number of speakers of some languages is more than 10 crores.
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About 25 percent of the new languages are from Africa. New African languages to be added include Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda and Wolof. Cantonese has been the most requested language to be included, but its characters overlap with Mandarin.