While our system understands different Myanmar inputs, we encourage the use of open standards and therefore only output Myanmar translations in Unicode.Įxciting news to say the least, because Burmese is the last of the major Southeast Asian languages to be included as a supported language- Tagalog was included in one of the first stages, Indonesian and Vietnamese added in 2008, Thai and Malay in 2009, Lao in 2012, and Khmer in 2013. Myanmar language has been in the works for a long time as it’s a challenging language for automatic translation, both from language structure and font encoding perspectives. Myanmar (Burmese, မြန်မာစာ) is the official language of Myanmar with 33 million native speakers. The blog post also notes the challenges in translating Burmese, citing Burmese syntax and font encoding issues ( ahem, Zawgyi): In India and Southeast Asia, we are adding Malayalam, Myanmar, Sinhala, and Sundanese.
Today, the official Google Translate blog announced that it added 10 new languages to Google Translate, among them Burmese:
