
The artificial international language
Esperanto has become the 64th language supported by Google Translate, as
reported in the company's blog. Thus, the service now supports text translation from 64 languages, voice input in 17 languages and text-to-speech in 24 languages.
The translation function is currently available only in the browser version of Google Translate. In the near future, the company plans to add this language to the mobile version, as well as to applications for iOS and Android.
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Underlying Esperanto, the idea of creating a simple-to-learn international language greatly facilitated the development of automatic translation, the service developers said.
Esperanto is the most common artificial language in the world. It is spoken, according to various estimates, from one hundred thousand to several million people, films are made, magazines and books are published. In the
relevant section of Wikipedia now 160 thousand articles. Polish oculist Lazar Markovic Zamenhof dedicated to the creation of Esperanto 10 years.