{"id":9730,"date":"2023-04-18T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:50:28","slug":"announcing-four-new-languages-konkani-maithili-sindhi-and-sinhala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2023\/04\/18\/announcing-four-new-languages-konkani-maithili-sindhi-and-sinhala\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing four new languages: Konkani, Maithili, Sindhi and Sinhala\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today, we are delighted to announce that we have added three new Indian languages to Microsoft Translator – Konkani, Maithili, and Sindhi. Along with this, we are also adding support for Sinhala, the official language of Sri Lanka. With this latest release, Microsoft is further democratizing access to information in native languages for India. <\/span>This brings our total number of supported languages to 128 and adds language support for <\/span>16 Indian languages including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Text translation for the four new languages is available now in the\u202f<\/span>Microsoft Translator apps<\/span><\/b><\/a>, Office, and\u202f<\/span>Translator for Bing<\/span><\/b><\/a>.\u202fUsing\u202f<\/span>Translator, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service<\/span><\/b><\/a>,<\/span><\/b>\u202fyou can add Indian languages\u2019 text translation to your apps, websites, workflows, and tools; or use Translator\u2019s Document Translation feature to translate entire documents, or volumes of documents, in a variety of different file formats preserving their original formatting. You can also use Translator with\u202f<\/span>Cognitive Services<\/span><\/b><\/a>,\u202fsuch as\u202f<\/span>Speech<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u202for\u202f<\/span>Vision<\/span><\/b><\/a>, to add additional capabilities such as speech and image translation into your apps.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Konkani is primarily spoken by over 2 million people in the states of Goa, Maharashtra, and Karnataka. It is also spoken by a significant number of people in other parts of India, such as Kerala and Gujarat.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAbout the Konkani language<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n