{"id":234483,"date":"2018-03-28T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=234483"},"modified":"2018-03-28T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T09:00:05","slug":"google-maps-adds-afrikaans-and-zulu-language-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/234483\/google-maps-adds-afrikaans-and-zulu-language-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps adds Afrikaans and Zulu language options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced the introduction of 39 new languages to its maps platform &#8211; including Afrikaans and Zulu.<\/p>\n<p>Google said in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/maps\/google-maps-learns-39-new-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> <\/strong> that despite only offering English when it first launched 14 years ago, today more than a billion people use Google Maps to discover new places, find the best driving, biking, and walking routes.<\/p>\n<p>It said that it believes that Zulu and Afrikaans &#8211; along with the 37 other new languages &#8211; will help reach an additional 1.25 billion people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The new language options will be available in the Google Maps app on Android and iOS, as well as to desktop users.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/104497\/the-most-spoken-languages-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">census<\/a> <\/strong>data (2011), Zulu is the most widely spoken language in the country with more than 11.6 million speakers.<\/p>\n<p>This is followed by Xhosa with over 8.15 million speakers, and Afrikaans, with more than 6.85 million speakers.<\/p>\n<p>English is some distance away with 4.9 million speakers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/233117\/google-working-on-blockchain-related-technology\/\">Google working on blockchain-related technology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced the introduction of 39 new languages to its maps platform &#8211; including Afrikaans and Zulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":97273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[53,26],"class_list":["post-234483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234483"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234503,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234483\/revisions\/234503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}