Google Maps gained 39 new languages

Atsuko Yamagami, Program Manager at Google Maps, announced last week the addition of 39 languages to Google Maps. The new 39 languages are spoken by an estimated 1.25 billion people worldwide.

Google says that “more than 1 billion people use Google Maps to discover new places, find the best driving, biking, and walking routes, and get things done in the real world.”

The new languages are 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.