Google Maps gets support for 39 additional languages


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Google Maps is now getting 39 additional languages support spoken by an estimated 1.25 billion people worldwide. Google Maps currently has more than 1 billion active users and lets you discover new places, find the best driving, biking, and walking routes, and more.

The new languages include

  • 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

Google Maps started in 2004 and was only available in English back then and has gradually rolled out different languages over time. The 39  new language additions are coming to Google Maps on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows OS.

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