Google Maps adds support for 39 new languages

Google announced today that Maps is adding 39 previously unsupported languages. Maps is currently used by more than a billion people worldwide, Google says, and the newly-added languages expand its potential userbase by quite a bit. According to Google, the new languages combined are spoken by about 1.25 billion people. A list of the new additions follows. Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Bosnian Burmese Croatian Czech Danish Estonian Filipino Finnish Georgian Hebrew Icelandic Indonesian Kazakh Khmer Kyrgyz Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Mongolian Norwegian Persian Romanian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Swahili Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Uzbek Vietnamese Zulu March has been a big month for Maps: on top of the new language support, the platform has seen the addition of Disney theme parks to Street View, a promotional event for Mario Day, new wheelchair-accessible routes, and more. Read More Google Maps adds support for 39 new languages was written by the awesome team at Android Police. Android Match ae http://androidmatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default