Informatic Technology giant Google announced the addition of 24 languages – including 10 spoken in Africa – to its Google Translate feature.
The new African languages are:
- Bambara – spoken in Mali
- Ewe – spoken in Ghana and Togo
- Krio – spoken in Sierra Leone
- Lingala – spoken in large parts of central Africa including the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Luganda – spoken in Uganda and Rwanda
- Oromo – spoken in Ethiopia
- Sepedi – spoken in South Africa
- Tigrinya – spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Tsonga – spoken in South Africa
- Twi – spoken in Ghana
Several other African languages were already available, including Amharic, Hausa and Somali.