Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Friday,
added Hausa language, Fula, and two
others, Maltese and Corsican to Facebook,
making the social media platform become
available in more than 100 languages.

Zuckerberg announced this yesterdaywhere he
expressed optimism that the addition has halted the disappearance of some of the added languages.

“Facebook is now available in more than 100
languages — with more than one billion people
using a language other than English! Today we
added Fula, Maltese and Corsican.”

“Our community makes this possible. Over the
last decade, hundreds of thousands of people
around the world have worked together to find
the right translations for words and phrases in
the Facebook interface. Because the idea of a

“Like” in English may mean something different
in Arabic or Japanese.”

The Fula language, also known as Fulani, is a
non-tonal language spoken in Northeastern
Nigeria and in a continuum that stretches across
some 20 countries of Western Africa and Central
Africa. Spoken as a first language by the Fula
people, it is also spoken as a second language by
various peoples like the Kirdi of Northern
Cameroon.

Recall that Zuckerberg who visited Nigeria on
August 30th where he met with software
developers and ICT entrepreneurs in Lagos
pledged to use Nigerian languages in offering
services on Facebook.

However, on the reasons for the added
languages, he said, ” For people to share what
matters to them and see what matters to the
people they care about, they need services
available in a language they know. Some of the
languages we’ve added don’t have meaningful
presence on the internet.”

“Others, like Corsican, are in danger of
disappearing altogether, according to UNESCO.”
Zuckerberg also reiterated this resolve to make
the platform available to people no matter where
they are on the globe.

“So thanks to everyone in our community for
helping us hit this milestone of 100 languages!
We’ll keep working to open up our community to
everyone – no matter where they live or what
language they speak.”
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/breaking-zuckerberg-adds-hausa-language-fula-to-facebook/

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Nigeria, the giant of Africa is truly a fertile ground. It's just unfortunate that many of us living within cannot see the opportunities that are within. These other big guys knows how to get us and are doing it very well. This act now is going to increase Facebook's traffic from within the region by a large percentage.

A good development.