Hi Sheila, Please have a look here: http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general/browse_thread/thread/b55cab22c56ed8a8#
If that doesn't answer your questions, please let me know. Best, Josh Senior Software Engineer Google Translate On Aug 5, 12:04 pm, Sheila wrote: > Folks, > > Does anyone know why Tibetan does not have language support in Google? > > Maltese is spoken by only 350,000 people. Yiddish is spoken by about > 1 million. Irish Gaelic (which I speak and support strongly) is > spoken by 40,000-80,000 people--NONE of whom are monolingual, save for > a few precious elders. > > Tibetan is spoken by *6 million people* and has one of the oldest > literatures in the history of the world. > > This cannot be an accident, can it?? 6 million speakers? Fonts are > already developed. Extensive Tibetan-English and Tibetan-Chinese and > Tibetan-Sanskrit dictionaries exist. > > I don't want to dwell on the answer too long--I'd rather solve the > problem--but I do want to get to the bottom of it. A Chinese man > recently told me that "Google would release Tibetan support soon, > which will make it easier to track Tibetans but also easier for people > to pose as fake Tibetans" (his words). > > Is he correct--is Google planning to release Tibetan support? And is > Google working with the Chinese government to in any way enable them > to invade Tibetans' privacy in some new way? > > Thanks very much to anyone willing to investigate this intriguing > phenomena with me, and more importantly, to get Tibetan support off > the ground. And adventure as always. > > Best wishes, > > Sheila -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
