Facebook added 24 new languages to its automatic translation services, bringing its total language directions—pairs of languages that it offers translation between—to 4,504.
The newly supported languages are:
- Amharic
- Romanized Arabic
- Belarusian
- Romanized Bengali
- Cambodian
- Gujarati
- Hausa
- Romanized Hindi
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Pashto
- Punjabi
- Serbian
- Sinhalese
- Somali
- Swahili
- Telugu
- Urdu
- Romanized Urdu
- Xhosa
- Zulu
Research scientists Paco Guzman and Juan Miguel Pino, software engineer Don Husa and engineering manager Necip Fazil Ayan wrote in a blog post that when factoring in the number of languages being used on Facebook and the volume of content, the social network is serving almost 6 billion translations daily, powered by artificial intelligence and neural machine translation.
They wrote of the new languages that were added, “Translation systems for many of these languages are at an early stage, and the translations they produce are still a long way from professional quality.
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