Google Translate has expanded its service to include around 110 new languages and dialects, now supporting approximately 200 in total.
This update sees the inclusion of languages such as Limburgish, Breton, Cantonese (Southern China), Manx (Isle of Man), Punjabi (India-Pakistan), Tamazight (North Africa), Sicilian, Venetian, and Occitan (Southern France).
Limburgish is a Germanic language spoken mainly in parts of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany by about 1.6 million people. In Belgium, Limburgish is spoken in the north, in the eponymous province, Limburg.
Walloon and Picard, however, are yet to be included, nor are other native languages in and around the Wallonia area, such as Champenois or Lorrain.
The addition of these languages gives an additional 614 million speakers access to automatic translation via Google Translate.
The American tech giant utilised its artificial intelligence (AI) model, PaLM 2, to facilitate the integration of these languages, particularly those with close ties to each other.
