For the past six months or so, a team of volunteer translators who are passionate about Chichewa have been busy translating Google web search interface to Chichewa. The work has now been completed.
Google homepages for Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have been translated into Chichewa (a.k.a. Chinyanja) and are now running live. The Mozambique homepage is defaulted to Portuguese while the other three homepages are defaulted to English. Links that take you to the Chichewa (Chinyanja) interface appear below the search box.
As is usually the case with new systems, there are some typos and orthographical errors. The review team, of which I am a member, is taking care of them. It is hoped that you, as users, will help the review team by sending constructive suggestions and opinions.
Enjoy Google Web Search in Chichewa!
9 users commented in " Google now speaks Chichewa! "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIts good to see that Google is taking steps in that direction.It will certainly help those people who can’t read or write English or other foreign languages.
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great work
zikomo kwambiri
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I guess it goes to show … the world is smaller than we think. Google is bridging the world. Great article. Thanks.
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Ha this is very cool to see that Google even incorporate less than common languages. Very neat!
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Brilliant!
I am glad to hear the news.
This will help even those that had heard about Google, Tried Google but could not access anything from it – because they could not read / understand anything written in English.
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Its a good news that Google is taking steps to make its search engine user-friendly with the locals of Africa who do not know how to read and write in English.Thanks to Google..
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Brilliant work! Thanks to Google for bridging the language gap and kudos to your team for initiating this worthwhile project.
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Thas some good news. Im sure many people over there dont speak english so this is nice step forward 🙂
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I must admit that I was a bit ignorant and had never even heard of a language called Chichewa! Time for Wikipedia.
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