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Monday, December 16, 2013

Google Translate adds Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba to service



Google now translates Yoruba (as seen above), Igbo and Hausa languages . Photo: Google Translate
Google now translates Yoruba (as seen above), Igbo and Hausa languages . Photo: Google Translate
Google Translate has added 3 major languages spoken in Nigeria to its multilingual statistical machine-translation service.
The languages are:
Hausa; spoken in the northern part of Nigeria and neighbouring countries with over 35 million native speakers.
Igbo; spoken in the eastern part and some part of Delta State with over 25 million native speakers. Igbo was recently added as one of the official languages in Equatorial Guinea.
Yoruba; spoken in western Nigeria and neighbouring countries with over 28 million native speakers.
Google Translate currently offers text and audio translations in 80 languages.

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