Microsoft Translator will increase variety of supported languages to 124!
As we speak, we’re excited to announce that we’ve added 13 new African languages to Microsoft Translator! Following final 12 months’s launch of Somali and Zulu, this launch highlights our continued efforts of empowering African language communities to attain extra. Microsoft Translator now helps:
- chiShona (7 million audio system)
- Hausa (72 million audio system)
- Igbo (40 million audio system)
- Kinyarwanda (10 million audio system)
- Lingala (65 million audio system)
- Luganda (21 million audio system)
- Nyanja (1 million audio system)
- Rundi (12 million audio system)
- Sesotho (14 million audio system)
- Sesotho sa Leboa (15 million audio system)
- Setswana (13 million audio system)
- Xhosa (10 million audio system)
- Yoruba (55 million audio system)
This brings our complete variety of supported languages to 124 and provides language help for greater than 335 million individuals in Africa and worldwide.
Textual content translation for the 13 new African languages is obtainable now within the Microsoft Translator apps, Workplace, and Translator for Bing. Utilizing Translator, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service, you possibly can add African languages’ textual content translation to your apps, web sites, workflows, and instruments; or use Translator’s Doc Translation characteristic to translate whole paperwork, or volumes of paperwork, in quite a lot of totally different file codecs preserving their authentic formatting. You too can use Translator with Cognitive Providers resembling Speech or Pc Imaginative and prescient so as to add further capabilities resembling speech-to-text and picture translation into your apps.
The chiShona language is spoken by 7 million individuals in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The language is within the Bantu language household. Listed below are some helpful phrases in chiShona:
| English | chiShona |
| Hi there | Mhoro |
| My identify is… | Zita randu ndi… |
| I’m from… | Ndinobva… |
Study extra about chiShona on Bing.
The Hausa language is spoken by 72 million individuals in Niger, Nigeria, and Benin, in addition to all through different West African nations. The language is within the Chadic department of the Afroasiatic language household. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Hausa:
| English | Hausa |
| Hi there | Sannu |
| My identify is… | Sunana… |
| I’m from… | Ni dan… |
Study extra about Hausa on Bing.
The Igbo language is spoken by 40 million individuals in Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon. The language is within the Niger-Congo language household. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Igbo:
| English | Igbo |
| Hi there | Ndewo |
| My identify is… | Aha m bụ… |
| I’m from… | Abụ m onye… |
Study extra about Igbo on Bing.
The Kinyarwanda language is spoken by 10 million individuals in Rwanda, Uganda, DR Congo, and Tanzania. The language is within the Bantu language household. It’s formally generally known as Ikinyarwanda. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Kinyarwanda:
| English | Kinyarwanda |
| Hi there | Muraho |
| My identify is… | Nitwa… |
| I’m from… | Nturuka… |
Study extra about Kinyarwanda on Bing.
The Lingala language is spoken by 65 million individuals in DR Congo and the Republic of the Congo. The language is within the Bantu language household. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Lingala:
| English | Lingala |
| Hi there | Mbote |
| My identify is… | Kombo nanga eza… |
| I’m from… | Naza mutu ya ekolo… |
Study extra about Lingala on Bing.
The Luganda language is spoken by 21 million individuals in Uganda. The language is within the Bantu language household. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Luganda:
| English | Luganda |
| Hi there | Nkulamusizza |
| My identify is… | Erinnya lyange nze… |
| I’m from… | Nva… |
Study extra about Luganda on Bing.
The Nyanja language is spoken by 1 million audio system in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. The language is within the Bantu language household. It’s also generally known as Chewa. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Nyanja:
| English | Nyanja |
| Hi there | Moni |
| My identify is… | Dzina langa ndi… |
| I’m from… | Ndimachokera ku… |
Study extra about Nyanja on Bing.
The Rundi language is spoken by 12 million audio system in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, DR Congo, Uganda, and Kenya. The languages is within the Bantu household of languages. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Rundi:
| English | Rundi |
| Hi there | Ni gute |
| My identify is… | Amazina yanje ni… |
| I’m from… | Aho navukiye… |
Study extra about Rundi on Bing.
The Sesotho language is spoken by 14 million audio system in Lesotho, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The language is within the Bantu household of languages. It’s also generally known as Sotho or Souther Sotho. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Sesotho:
| English | Sesotho |
| Hi there | Dumela |
| My identify is… | Lebitso la ka ke… |
| I’m from… | Ke tswa… |
Study extra about Sesotho on Bing.
The Sesotho sa Leboa language is spoken by 15 million audio system in South Africa. The language is within the Bantu household of languages. It’s also generally known as Northern Sotho or Sepedi. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Sesotho sa Leboa:
| English | Sesotho sa Leboa |
| Hi there | Dumela |
| My identify is… | Leina laka ke… |
| I’m from… | Ketswa… |
Study extra about Sesotho sa Leboa on Bing.
The Setswana language is spoken by 13 million individuals in Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Setswana:
| English | Setswana |
| Hi there | Dumela |
| My identify is… | Leina lame ke… |
| I’m from… | Ke tswa kwa… |
Study extra about Setswana on Bing.
The Xhosa language is spoken by 10 million individuals in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. It’s within the Bantu household of languages. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Xhosa:
| English | Xhosa |
| Hi there | Molo |
| My identify is… | Igama lam ngu… |
| I’m from… | Ndisuka e… |
Study extra about Xhosa on Bing.
The Yoruba language is spoken by 55 million individuals in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. Listed below are some helpful phrases in Yoruba:
| English | Yoruba |
| Hi there | Ẹ pẹ̀lẹ́ o |
| My identify is… | Orúkọ mi ni… |
| I’m from… | Mo wá láti… |
Study extra about Yoruba on Bing.
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