Internet giant Google announced on August 31 that it was adding nine more languages to Google Translate, its automatic translation programme. The Mountain View, California-based Company, in a blog post, said Google Translate was now available in Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish.
The addition of nine new languages brings to 51 the number of languages offered by Google Translate, it said. Google Translate allows users to automatically translate Web pages from one language to another and the feature has been added to other Google products such as its email programme Gmail and its blog reader.
Google announced last week that it had added automatic translation to Google Docs allowing users to instantly translate documents. Google Docs provides word processing, spreadsheet and other programmes hosted on the Internet.