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Facebook announced a change to their language policy – now, users will be able to choose from over 100 languages.
With this change, developers hope that Facebook will realize the importance of supporting more than one official language. This will give users a more personalized experience on the platform. It can also be helpful for businesses that have multilingual customers.
Facebook is a very popular social networking site with more than 1.2 billion users worldwide. With over one million applications, it’s hard to find an application that doesn’t already have a presence on Facebook.
According to the new language system, users can now choose from 100 languages to better express their emotions through Facebook posts and notifications.
The change will come into effect in November and it stems from the need for people using Facebook to be able to connect with those around them on a global scale.
The language choice appears to be a welcome addition to Facebook, which has been trying to transform itself into a more global platform. Creators of the new language system say that the feature could help people connect better with friends and family outside their home country, while still being able to enjoy content in their native tongue.
Facebook says that the change will maintain its authenticity and accessibility. The site has already allowed users to select from over 100 languages for their account, but this was only available on mobile. With this change, users will be able to choose from over 100 languages both on mobile and on desktop.
Facebook has also launched a series of tutorials for developers and businesses to familiarize themselves with the new language-selection option.
This is great news for people who want to stay connected with friends and family around the world.
Facebook has a huge number of users. This can be problematic for individuals trying to communicate in different languages. In many cases, only English was supported by the service. And, even if the user has a Facebook account in their native language, they would still have to use English when commenting on someone else’s post. This can cause a lot of confusion.
That’s about to change.
Facebook is adding a number of new languages to their Facebook Messenger platform, which is a huge win for people who want to translate from one language to another directly in the messaging app. There are new languages that will be possible to use in the Messenger app, including Vietnamese, Danish and Norwegian.
In the most basic terms, the new Messenger platform will enable users to send messages that can be translated into their native language. That means that you could send a message in Vietnamese and it would appear in your native language as well as in English. This can provide a lot of convenience for people who want to communicate with friends and family members around the world.
Facebook is not just adding new languages for the Messenger platform, but they are also expanding their translation services for the Facebook app itself. In the near future, users will be able to type comments in Spanish and have them appear in English. Facebook is also adding a number of African languages to their translation services.
However, there are still some languages that are not available on Facebook.
The new change allows users to choose from over 100 languages. However, this does not include all the official languages in the world. For example, as of this writing, only Spanish and Portuguese are supported. This is because Facebook has a limited amount of resources available to them for linguistic research. They are also working on a way to include more languages in the future.
To help us better understand why Facebook was not able to include every language in the world, we interviewed Ashok Jain, one of the engineers responsible for these changes.
“We store all of the languages that we use in our products and services on a very different level than how we store the text for our general audience,” he said. “When we design features and features that people use constantly. Our engineers spend a lot of time thinking about making sure that all the text that we display is accurate. The tools we build for this are called human translators. These people help us to make sure that we are consistently getting every text into our systems correctly in every language.”
Jain said: “The way Facebook stores languages varies from one language to another and how it is used in our services varies from language to language. For example, some languages, such as Spanish, are used for all types of publications. We store a lot of Spanish text entered by users around the world.”
We would like to see Facebook add more African languages to their list of options.
There are a lot of people that speak African languages. For example, in South Africa, there are roughly 17 tribal languages and 310 language groups. Each of these has its own dialect, syntax, and grammar. It is no wonder that Facebook has only added Spanish and Portuguese so far. However, they have promised to do their best to add more.
Facebook has created a barrier which is preventing many people from communicating with one another. There are roughly six million languages spoken in the world. Almost half of these have fewer than 10,000 speakers, while of those that have more than 100,000 speakers, only 2% are actually enabling written communication. This is not the case for Facebook, where people can write on their walls in as many languages as they wish. We say that it’s time to do more.
Facebook needs to make all its walls digital, so that people can write in their native language. We say, give us our freedom back. Our mother tongues should be respected. Our languages should be able to compete with English and Spanish on Facebook.
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Title: We would like to see Facebook add more African languages to their list of options. [ARTICLE END]
Some of the most spoken African languages include Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu, and Amharic.
However, even if Facebook were able to add all of these languages, it would not mean that the service is fully functional. Just because a language is supported by Facebook does not mean that everyone who speaks the language will be able to understand it. This is an issue with many social media networks – they are working on fixing this, too. […]
Title:Zac Brehmer | Facebook [Zac Brehmer is a former facebook developer and creator of the site spreaker.com, which is the largest online video community on the internet]
We’ve been talking about language support for Facebook for a long time. And I think it’s important because if you want to build community, most of us use Facebook to hook up with people who are in our language group or culture. […].
Title:Facebook, Language and You|Education|US News and World Report [Education article relating to the Facebook language issue]
