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Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Search in new African languages

Posted on 04:24 by Unknown
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Well, the languages are not really that new, it is rather we that are new to the languages. Any way you look it at, we have just made some of our African domains way cooler with local languages:

Ethiopia got Tigrinya, Oromo and Somali (in addition to Amharic and English)
Nigeria got Yoruba and Hausa (in addition to English)
Ghana got Hausa (in addition to English)
DR Congo got Lingala (in addition to French and Swahili)
Congo got Lingala (in addition to French)
Rwanda got Kinyarwanda (in addition to French, English and Swahili)
Burundi got Kirundi (in addition to French and Swahili)

The most remarkable thing about this launch, is that every single one of these languages was translated by volunteer translators, passionate about their language, without Google's involvement.

Paying attention to the growing demand for products in African languages, we have decided to expand our Google in Your Language program for Africa - we have added many more African languages - now up to 38 of them are available for translation - and added more products as well. In addition to our search engine, it is now also possible to translate Knol and MapMaker to all these languages.

We are not stopping here - we are most happy to discuss requests to open up the program to additional Google products and African languages - please engage with us through the Google Africa Community forum.

Enjoy, and we are looking forward to receiving feedback regarding your experience with using Google in these new languages.

Posted by Divon Lan, Product Manager - Sub Saharan Africa

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Recherche dans de nouvelles langues d'Afrique

Bon, les langues ne sont pas tellement nouvelles, mais c'est plutôt nous qui sommes nouveaux avec elles. Quel que soit le sens dans lequel on le tourne, nous avons rendu certains de nos noms de domaines africains beaucoup plus sympas en ajoutant des langues locales:

l'Ethiopie possède maintenant le tigrinya, l'oromo et le somali (en plus de l'Amharic et de l'anglais)
Le Nigeria possède maintenant le yoruba et le hausa (en plus de l'anglais)
Le Ghana possède maintenant le hausa (en plus de l'anglais)
La République Démocratique du Congo possède maintenant le lingala (en plus du français et du swahili)
Le Congo possède maintenant le lingala (en plus du français)
Le Rwanda possède maintenant le kinyarwanda (en plus du français, de l'anglais et du swahili)
Le Burundi possède maintenant le kirundi (en plus du français et du swahili)

La chose la plus remarquable dans ce lancement, est que chacune de ces langues a été traduite par des traducteurs volontaires, passionnés par leur langue, sans la participation de Google.

En faisant attention à la demande croissante de produits en langues africaines, nous avons décidé d'étendre notre programme Google dans votre langue pour l'Afrique. Nous avons ajouté beaucoup d'autres langues africaines - maintenant 38 d'entre elles sont disponibles pour la traduction - et également davantage de produits. En plus de notre moteur de recherche, il est maintenant possible de traduire Knol et MapMaker dans toutes ces langues.

Nous ne nous arrêterons pas là et nous sommes toujours très heureux de discuter de toutes les demandes pour ouvrir le programme à d'autres produits Google et d'autres langues d'Afrique. Merci de nous contacter à travers le forum Google Africa Community.

Nous sommes impatients de recevoir vos commentaires concernant votre expérience d'utilisateur de Google dans ces nouvelles langues.

Posté par Divon Lan, Product Manager - Afrique Sub-Saharienne
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