Meanwhile, the translation was a failure at least 80 percent of the time for Kurdish, Nepali, Latin, Malaysian, Urdu, Maori, Cebuano, Georgian, Persian, Punjabi, and Uzbek. The translation failed 100 percent of the time for these three languages. The study found the greatest losers to be Bengali, Haitian Creole, and Tajik.

41 languages received a Tarzan score of 50 percent or higher, with Afrikaans once more topping the table. The best was Afrikaans, followed by German, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Galician, Greek, Italian, and Latvian (in that order). Of all the languages tested, just 12 scored higher than 50 percent for their Bard result. The ‘Tarzan’ score was given based on how well the translation conveyed the original intent of the phrases, regardless of its quality. The ‘Bard’ score was awarded based on how well the phrases were translated according to human translation quality. The company judged the quality of the translations in two ways. Clearly, the Kamusi team doesn’t shy away from large or complex projects!įor the Google Translate project, 102 native speakers were given the same phrases, translated from English into their own language by Google Translate. Kamusi Project International and Kamusi Project USA are the not-for-profit organisations behind Kamusi GOLD – a participatory attempt to provide a dictionary covering every word in every language. However, a study by Kamusi Project International has found that Afrikaans is the language for which Google Translate delivers the most successful results.

Which language do you think Google Translate can translate better than any other? Mandarin Chinese, perhaps? Hindustani? Spanish? Arabic? You would be forgiven for assuming that it was one of the world’s most spoken languages.

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