Google to add Maya, Nahuatl languages to search engine (fwd link)

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Google to add Maya, Nahuatl languages to search engine

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 11:23:00 03/19/2010

MEXICO CITY – Internet giant Google is adding two native Central
American languages – Maya and Nahuatl – to its universal search
service, a company official said Thursday.

"Searches in these two pre-Columbian languages and mobile
satellite-linked connections to the Internet are part of Google's
growth strategy," Google's Mexico marketing technology director Miguel
de Alva told Agence France-Presse.

"The two languages are of interest to online searchers because the
first [Maya] is spoken by 1.5 million people and the second [Nahuatl],
by more than one million."

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