Google Maps gets support for 39 languages.

Language barriers can have a negative impact on business or on the use of an app and Google Maps is one such app which needs to cater for the many spoken languages on the planet. With more than 1 billion users using Google Maps, bringing more languages to the app is not only a challenge but an imperative.

And today Google announced the addition of 39 more languages to Google Maps which, according to the company, is spoken by 1.25 billion people worldwide. That is a lot of users and adding that number to current users, Google Maps could quickly reach the 2 billion mark.

Here's the list of the new supported languages: 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, and Zulu.

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