Will soon support Cantonese, Google Translate announces 110 new languages: covering 8% of the world's population

According to news from this site on June 27, Google announced today that Google Translate will add 110 new languages, including Cantonese, NKo and Tamazight (Note from this site: As of the publication of this article, after testing, Google Translate has not yet launched these languages).

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From Cantonese to Qʼeqchiʼ, these languages ​​cover more than 614 million speakers, accounting for about 8% of the world's population. Some of these are major world languages ​​with over 100 million speakers, others are languages ​​spoken by small indigenous communities, and still others have few native speakers but are undergoing revitalization efforts.
Through Google’s PaLM 2 major language model, Google Translate will add 110 new languages, which is its largest expansion in history. Prior to this, Google announced the 1000 Languages ​​Project in 2022, which is dedicated to building artificial intelligence models that support the 1000 most commonly used languages ​​​​in the world.
Google says it will continue to work with professional linguists and native speakers, and as technology improves and over time, Google Translate will support more languages.

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