Google announced today that it has added 285 languages to the
Google worked with Dr. Te Taka Keegan on the project. Keegan is a M?ori language activist and senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Waikato who spent much of his career on how technology can assist in minority language revitalization. Read about the ways Keegan believes Google's Translator Toolkit can help minority languages here.
"Languages provide identity, pride, a sense of belonging and spiritual guidance to minority language communities," says Google. "We hope that by giving both majority and minority language speakers around the world the tools to make online content accessible in their language, we will enable more people to share their culture and knowledge with others worldwide."
About a month and a half ago, Google announced that it was translating 98% of the Internet's languages
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