Google translates Gmail to 12 languages, asks for volunteers to target 144 more
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Google has translated its email service, Gmail, into 12 languages, and it has put up a form that allows the public to volunteer to translate the Gmail interface into 144 more languages. Available for its first year with an English interface only, Gmail now appears in 13 languages: Chinese (2 variants, "Simplified" and "Traditional") Dutch English (2 variants, US and UK) French German Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish While most of the languages listed in the volunteering form are old, three are relatively new: Bork
Google has translated its email service, Gmail, into 12 languages, and it has put up a form that allows the public to volunteer to translate the Gmail interface into 144 more languages. Available for its first year with an English interface only, Gmail now appears in 13 languages:
Chinese (2 variants, "Simplified" and "Traditional")
Dutch
English (2 variants, US and UK)
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
While most of the languages listed in the volunteering form are old, three are relatively new: Borkborkbork, Klingon, and Esperanto. Additionally, the form lists Pig Latin, which is a method of rearranging words to obscure a language, rather than a language in itself.
Google has also recently introduced a feature known as "My Search History," which allows users to record their searches. Use of the search history requires that the user have and log in to a Google or Gmail account.
Languages into which the Gmail interface may be translated:
Languages
Abkhazian
Afar
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Assamese
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bhutani
Bihari
Bislama
Borkborkbork
Bosnian
Breton
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cambodian
Catalan
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
ElmerFudd
Esperanto
Estonian
Faroese
Fiji
FinnishFrisian
Galician
Georgian
Greek
Greenlandic
Guarani
Gujarati
Hacker
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Interlingua
Interlingue
Inuktitut
Inupiak
Irish
Javanese
Kannada
Kashmiri
Kazakh
Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Klingon
Kurdish
Kyrgyz
Laothian
Latin
Latvian
Lingala
Lithuanian
MacedonianMalagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Moldavian
Mongolian
Nauru
Nepali
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Occitan
Oriya
Oromo
Pashto, Pushto
Persian
PigLatin
Polish
Portuguese (Portugal)
Punjabi
Quechua
Rhaeto-Romance
Romanian
Samoan
Sangho
Sanskrit
ScotsGaelic
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Sesotho
Setswana
Shona
SindhiSinhalese
Siswati
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrinya
Tonga
Tsonga
Turkish
Turkmen
Twi
Uighur
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Volapuk
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zhuang
Zulu
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