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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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