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Google is company that offers a popular search engine for browsing the internet, a web-based email service ("Gmail"), and other services.
"Google in Your Language" search engine
The Google search engine has been localised in a number of languages and some of those are organised in country portals. For information about this program see http://www.google.com/transconsole
African language Googles include:
- Afrikaans - http://www.google.com/intl/af/
- Amharic - http://www.google.com/intl/am/
- Arabic - http://www.google.com/intl/ar/
- Lingala - http://www.google.com/intl/ln/
- Sesotho - http://www.google.com/intl/st/
- Shona - http://www.google.com/intl/sn/
- Somali - http://www.google.com/intl/so/
- Swahili - http://www.google.com/intl/sw/
- Tigrinya - http://www.google.com/intl/ti/
- Twi - http://www.google.com/intl/tw/
- Xhosa - http://www.google.com/intl/xh/
- Yoruba - http://www.google.com/intl/yo/
- Zulu - http://www.google.com/intl/zu/
Many of the above are not 100% complete, and there has been a question as to how accurate the translations and orthographies for some of them are. In addition there are others not listed above that are at less complete levels of translation.
A list of translation projects for African languages with the percentage completion is given in the table to the left (information drawn from "Google in Your Language" http://www.google.com/transconsole/giyl/check/status on 2007-11-21):
| Google African language projects | |
| Language | % Complete |
|---|---|
| Afar | 1% |
| Afrikaans | 99% |
| Akan | 0% |
| Amharic | 100% |
| Arabic | 99% |
| Bambara | 0% |
| Fulah | 0% |
| Ganda | 1% |
| Gikuyu | 0% |
| Hausa | 99% |
| Herero? | 0% |
| Igbo | 0% |
| Kanuri | 0% |
| Kinyarwanda | 100% |
| Kirundi | 1% |
| Kongo | 0% |
| Kuanyama | 0% |
| Lingala | 95% |
| Luba-Katanga | 0% |
| Malagasy | 62% |
| Ndonga | 0% |
| North Ndebele | 0% |
| Nyanja | 0% |
| Oromo | 84% |
| Sangho | 1% |
| Sesotho | 50% |
| Setswana | 37% |
| Shona | 83% |
| Siswati | 7% |
| Somali | 76% |
| South Ndebele | 0% |
| Swahili | 86% |
| Tigrinya | 53% |
| Tonga | 58% |
| Tsonga | 16% |
| Twi | 57% |
| Venda | 0% |
| Wolof | 10% |
| Xhosa | 63% |
| Yoruba | 81% |
| Zulu | 59% |
References
- Google search engine & portal http://www.google.com (defaults to your preferred locale)
- Google developers internationalization portal https://developers.google.com/international/(approve sites)
- Wikipedia
RSS from Discussion group for Google translators
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