LANGUAGES, Part 4 04 Google Translate.png http://translate.google.com/ Google Translate In 2013, "Google Translate" would translate text from and to the following languages: These languages are 71 in number, and they include only one indigenous African language: Swahili. By 2015 the total had increased to 90 languages, of which 9 are indigenous African languages, namely Chichewa (Nyanja), Hausa, Igbo, Malagasy, Sesotho, Somali, Swahili, Yoruba and Zulu. Lingala is not there, Kinyarwanda is not there, Wolof is not there, Amharic is not there, Gikuyu and Dholuo are not there. Hundreds of African languages remain to be included. The advent of free, online, automatic translation services is a great boon and a help to people. In our continent, where so many languages are spoken, it opens the prospect of people being able to communicate much better than before across language barriers - if they have written text. Printed text can be scanned and rendered into digital text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Once in that form it can be translate by Google Translate or by similar software. Machine translation Computer translation is a great assistance, but it is not perfect. Computer translation has to be corrected, because it always contains errors, and serious errors at that. Computer translation assists because it quickly gives you a draft to work on. To correct the draft, you must apply your own knowledge of the languages, or use an old-fashioned dictionary, or else the computer-equivalent of an old-fashioned dictionary. Translation is an art. Computer translation cannot complete the artistic function of the translator. South Africans have not come to terms with translation, yet. This is so, not only true in terms of the eleven official languages, and other languages spoken in South Africa, but also in terms of international languages used in other parts of Africa such as French, Portuguese, Arabic, and Swahili. This becomes at some point a political problem, because politics relies on communication. Anything that inhibits communication can have a political effect. . To download any of the files in this course, please use this link: https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses2/26-languages -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to yclsa-eom-fo...@googlegroups.com or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Youth and Unions CU" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to youth-and-unions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/youth-and-unions/5d9971fe.1c69fb81.696f3.7857%40mx.google.com.
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