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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Google Translate Adds Kazakh, Tajik, Uzbek Languages
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">December 12, 2014
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Three Central Asian languages have been included in Google's online translation system.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The U.S.-based Internet giant's office in Kazakhstan announced on December 12 that instantaneous translation
from Kazakh, Tajik, and Uzbek into other languages -- and vice-versa -- is now available on computers and mobile devices.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to a statement, users of Google Translate can help improve the quality of translations by adding their
corrections and linguistic expertise online.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Google Translate now covers more than 90 languages.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Based on reporting by Interfax and <a href="http://ca-news.org" target="_blank">ca-news.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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