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August 20, 2012 02:24 pm GMT
The Internet has vastly improved how people can communicate with each other around the world -- but it's also, inevitably, played a part in dominant languages like English, and the Roman alphabet its written in, becoming even more widespread.Google is trying to counterbalance that -- while at the same time growing its own global reach. In the latest of these moves, it has unveiled a tool that helps translate Arabizi -- Roman-character based Arabic language slang -- back into Arabic script, as part of its Input Tools service unveiled in July."Although I do not like writing [in Arabizi] and I would always recommend using the Arabic language directly, some users may not have a keyboard in Arabic...so these tools facilitate the process and maintain Arabic language content," writesFayeq Oweis, a director in Google's department of Arabic language and localization, in a blog post announcing the new tool. It can be used in Google products like search, Gmail and Google+, but also across the rest of the Internet, and even offline.
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Google Adds ArabiziArabic Translation To Its Input Tools Language Support
The Internet has vastly improved how people can communicate with each other around the world -- but it's also, inevitably, played a part in dominant languages like English, and the Roman alphabet its written in, becoming even more widespread.Google is trying to counterbalance that -- while at the same time growing its own global reach. In the latest of these moves, it has unveiled a tool that helps translate Arabizi -- Roman-character based Arabic language slang -- back into Arabic script, as part of its Input Tools service unveiled in July."Although I do not like writing [in Arabizi] and I would always recommend using the Arabic language directly, some users may not have a keyboard in Arabic...so these tools facilitate the process and maintain Arabic language content," writesFayeq Oweis, a director in Google's department of Arabic language and localization, in a blog post announcing the new tool. It can be used in Google products like search, Gmail and Google+, but also across the rest of the Internet, and even offline.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/YEsuBxLSa3Q/
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