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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:

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
Afar1%
Afrikaans99%
Akan0%
Amharic100%
Arabic99%
Bambara0%
Fulah0%
Ganda1%
Gikuyu0%
Hausa99%
Herero?0%
Igbo0%
Kanuri0%
Kinyarwanda100%
Kirundi1%
Kongo0%
Kuanyama0%
Lingala95%
Luba-Katanga0%
Malagasy62%
Ndonga0%
North Ndebele0%
Nyanja0%
Oromo84%
Sangho1%
Sesotho50%
Setswana37%
Shona83%
Siswati7%
Somali76%
South Ndebele0%
Swahili86%
Tigrinya53%
Tonga58%
Tsonga16%
Twi57%
Venda0%
Wolof10%
Xhosa63%
Yoruba81%
Zulu59%

References

RSS from Discussion group for Google translators

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