Google Translate users can now translate “dinner” to “souper” and “sweater” to “chandail” after the translation platform added Canadian French to its options last week.
The change came the same week as Google Translate added Inuktut, which a spokesperson said is the first Indigenous language spoken in Canada to be added. Google intends to add 110 other languages to the platform this year, the spokesperson said.
Those languages include Cantonese, a Chinese language with more than 80 million speakers, and Manx, an endangered language spoken on the Isle of Man. Google says it aims to eventually provide translation for 1,000 languages.
Google declined The Gazette’s request for an interview.