If you"re a native from the Balkans or the Asian continent, or constantly traveling around these regions, you might be pleased to know that Google Maps has received a new update that introduces support for an additional 39 languages to the mapping app.
In a blog post, Atsuko Yamagami, Program Manager for Google Maps, announced the addition of the 39 new languages spoken by approximately 1.25 billion people worldwide, namely:
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
Zulu
Google Maps debuted in 2005 and it was available only in English then. Fourteen years later, according to Google, the app can now be used by more than 1 billion non-English speaking people to discover new places and find the best destinations. The update is rolling out to the Android, iOS, and desktop versions of the app.
More recently, Google Maps was updated to keep commuters informed about departure times and ETAs as well as to notify them once they have reached their destination or need to get off for their transfer.
