{"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":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9738\" src=\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2023\/04\/Indic-word-cloud.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1956\" height=\"1152\" \/><span data-contrast=\"none\">Microsoft Translator now supports a total of 16 Indian languages<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:160}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Today, we are delighted to announce that we have added three new Indian languages to Microsoft Translator &#8211; 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><span data-contrast=\"none\">This brings our total number of supported languages to 128 and adds language support for <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">16 Indian languages including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Text translation for the four new languages is available now in the\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/translator\/apps\/\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Microsoft Translator apps<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, Office, and\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/translator\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Translator for Bing<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u202fUsing\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/services\/cognitive-services\/translator\/\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Translator, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service<\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\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><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/services\/cognitive-services\/\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cognitive Services<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">,\u202fsuch as\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/services\/cognitive-services\/speech-translation\/\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Speech<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202for\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/services\/cognitive-services\/computer-vision\/\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Vision<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, to add additional capabilities such as speech and image translation into your apps.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-contrast=\"none\">About the Konkani language<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">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><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table data-tablestyle=\"MsoTableGrid\" data-tablelook=\"1184\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">English<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Konkani<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hello<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0939\u0945\u0932\u094b<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">My name is\u2026<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u092e\u094d\u0939\u091c\u0947\u0902<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0928\u093e\u0902\u0935<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0906\u0938\u093e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8230;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I\u2019m from\u2026<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0939\u093e\u0902\u0935<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0939\u093e\u0902\u0917\u093e\u091a\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0928\u2026<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Learn more about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=Konkani%20language\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Konkani on Bing<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-contrast=\"none\">About the Maithili language<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Maithili is spoken by over 75 million people in India and Nepal. Popularly written in Devanagari script, it has its own script variously called Mithilakshara, Tirhuta, and Maithili. Maithili is mainly spoken in the northern regions of Indian state of Bihar, in parts of the state of Jharkhand and in the Terai regions of Nepal. The development of Maithili was championed by Dr. Girish Nath Jha, professor of Computational Linguistics at the School of Sanskrit &amp; Indic Studies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnu.ac.in\/\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jawaharlal Nehru University<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(New Delhi, India), Dr. Ritu Nidhi and their team of research students.\u00a0 We collaborated closely with the JNU community who <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">helped with their expertise in machine translation and resource creation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table data-tablestyle=\"MsoTableGrid\" data-tablelook=\"1184\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">English<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Maithili<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hello<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">My name is\u2026<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0939\u092e\u0930<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0928\u093e\u092e<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0925\u093f\u0915<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8230;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I\u2019m from\u2026<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0939\u092e<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0905\u0939\u093f\u0920\u093e\u092e<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0938\u0901<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u091b\u0940<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8230;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Learn more about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=Maithili%20language\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Maithili on Bing<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-contrast=\"none\">About the Sindhi language<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sindhi is spoken by over 20 million people in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table data-tablestyle=\"MsoTableGrid\" data-tablelook=\"1184\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">English<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sindhi<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hello<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">My name is\u2026<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0645\u0646\u0647\u0646\u062c\u0648<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0646\u0627\u0644\u0648<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0622\u0647\u064a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8230;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I\u2019m from\u2026<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0645\u0627\u0646<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u06a9\u0627\u0646<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0622\u0647\u064a\u0627\u0646<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8230;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Learn more about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=Sindhi%20language\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sindhi on Bing<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-contrast=\"none\">About the Sinhala language<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sinhala is spoken by over 16 million people in Sri Lanka, as well as in other countries such as Malaysia and Singapore.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table data-tablestyle=\"MsoTableGrid\" data-tablelook=\"1184\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">English<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sinhala<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hello<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td data-celllook=\"0\"><span 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