Google is working to add
Somali, Zulu, Hausa,
Yoruba and Igbo to its
existing language options
in Google Translate at the
moment.
A post published to the
Google Africa page on
Google+ is asking for
volunteers to help evaluate
the quality of its current
machine translation
system.
Google Translate supports
71 different languages at
the moment, but Google
now hopes to add some of
its most “promising” African
languages by leveraging the
expertise of the Google+
community.
Users can rate passages
translated into English, and
vice versa. After assessing
the quality of the work,
volunteers can categorize it
as Excellent, Good, Fair and
Poor, before moving on to
another example.
It’s difficult to ascertain
how far away Google is
from actually introducing
these languages to Google
Translate, but it’s a clear
indicator that the company
is keen to expand the
product and support as
many users as possible in
Africa.

www.thenextweb.com/google/2013/08/27/google-is-working-to-bring-somali-zulu-hausa-yoruba-and-igbo-to-google-translate/

This is nice. I can't wait...I see some Nairalanders using it play their trade of being from where they're no actually from.

Very interesting piece of news.

Awesome.

Omo Yoruba lemio swagger.

We own three of the five African Languages. Cool...
Long live Nigeria.

Good news, I visited one foreign forum, 3 of Nigerian languages were recognised.

I am proud to be a Nigerian.

This is good.
At least i will now be able to translate any abuse on me in igbo and hausa language to my language.