Google Maps Adds 39 New Languages, Shona And Ndebele Miss Out

By Alvine Chaparadza

Google Maps, the web mapping service run by Google has expanded its language offerings to users with the addition of 39 languages. The service used by more than 1 billion people has added languages which Google claim that they are spoken by approximately 1.25 billion people worldwide.

The new languages included African languages, Swahili, Afrikaans, Zulu, and Amharic but none of the local languages were available. Local languages especially Shona is spoken by around 15 million people yet Afrikaans (10.3million) has fewer speakers. This begs the question as to what criteria did they use for the …read more

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