{"id":7014,"date":"2013-02-21T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/translation\/2013\/02\/21\/celebrating-international-mother-language-day-with-the-launch-of-new-languages-features\/"},"modified":"2013-02-21T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:01:00","slug":"celebrating-international-mother-language-day-with-the-launch-of-new-languages-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/celebrating-international-mother-language-day-with-the-launch-of-new-languages-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating International Mother Language Day with the Launch of New Languages & Features"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Microsoft celebrates the International Mother Language Day<\/a> alongside UNESCO<\/a>, with\u00a0the goal to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism across the world. Advancements in technology to support and preserve languages create greater awareness of the linguistic and cultural traditions celebrated throughout the world,\u00a0which in turn promote understanding, tolerance, and dialogue.<\/p>\n

\"\"With the proliferation of digital content on the web, mobile devices, and desktop applications, there is an increasing demand to communicate and collaborate in multiple languages. Helping enable business, communities, and consumers to communicate and collaborate across language barriers through technology innovation is\u00a0a core focus\u00a0for the Microsoft Translator team.<\/p>\n

Today, I am pleased to announce the launch of two new officially supported languages: Malay<\/strong> and Urdu<\/strong>. These two languages join the other languages<\/a> already supported by the Microsoft Translator<\/a> platform\u00a0and Bing Translator<\/a>. Malay is spoken by over 200M people worldwide in countries ranging from Malaysia to Brunei. Urdu is spoken by over 100M people worldwide and is spoken by large populations\u00a0residing in\u00a0the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East\u00a0and\u00a0countries in Europe and North America. It is the national language of Pakistan and the official language of several states in India.<\/p>\n

A year ago, on the last International Mother Language Day, we announced the release of Hmong<\/a> as part of a close engagement between Microsoft and the Hmong community – a small but significant step towards empowering businesses and organizations to tap into the power of Microsoft\u2019s language technology. Like Hmong, the development of Urdu is the result of a community effort shepherded by the Jawaharlal Nehru University<\/a> (New Delhi, India) under the leadership of\u00a0Dr.Girish Nath Jha, and Microsoft, utilizing the powerful Microsoft Translator Hub<\/a>\u00a0customization tools.<\/p>\n

In addition to the launch of these new languages; we are also rolling out several new improvements to our platform, customization tools, and language quality. See the release notes for this release in our forum here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We have seen some great momentum with both the business and language communities for the Translator Hub. Through the Hub, users are able to bring better and specialized translation quality to established languages, as well as the many native languages of the world that are not yet supported by major translation providers which go to the core of supporting the goals of Mother Language Day. Urdu is the latest language community benefiting from the availability of the Hub. \u00a0If you are passionate about the community development efforts around Urdu or other languages that we support and want to become involved in the efforts, please contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Commemorating the International Mother Language Day, Microsoft Local Language Program<\/a> (LLP), also announced the support of 13 extra languages to our range of Language Interface Packs (LIPs), bringing the total number of languages supported by Windows 8<\/a> and Office<\/a><\/span> to 108. Learn more at the\u00a0LLP\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– Vikram Dendi,
\nDirector of Product Management,
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