Yesterday, Microsoft Translator added support for 13 new African languages. Last year, Microsoft released support for Somali and Zulu, and today Microsoft is adding the following languages.
- chiShona (7 million speakers)
- Hausa (72 million speakers)
- Igbo (40 million speakers)
- Kinyarwanda (10 million speakers)
- Lingala (65 million speakers)
- Luganda (21 million speakers)
- Nyanja (1 million speakers)
- Rundi (12 million speakers)
- Sesotho (14 million speakers)
- Sesotho sa Leboa (15 million speakers)
- Setswana (13 million speakers)
- Xhosa (10 million speakers)
- Yoruba (55 million speakers)
With this expanded support, Microsoft Translator now supports 124 languages.
Text translation for the 13 new African languages is available now in the Microsoft Translator apps, Office, and Translator for Bing. Using Translator Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service, developers can add African languages’ text translation in apps, websites, workflows, and tools.
