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Google Translate just nearly doubled its number of supported languages. This includes common languages like Cantonese and lesser-known ones like Manx.


This includes common languages like Cantonese and lesser-known ones like Manx.

In a blog post, Google Senior Software Engineer Isaac Caswell claimed that the newly added languages are spoken by more than 614 million people, or about 8 percent of the global population. The blog post also went into some light detail about Google's philosophy for choosing languages and deciding which dialects to support: By contrast, Apple Translate supports 21 languages, though that number includes both US and UK English as distinct options.

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