Google gets more multilingual, but will it get the nuance?

A student colors in a fox during during Quechua Indigenous language class focusing on animal names at a public primary school in Licapa, Peru. About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas was nearly impossible before Google introduced it into its digital translation service on May 11, 2022. — AP

LIMA, Peru: About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas was long all but impossible.

That changed on May 11, when Google added Quechua and a variety of other languages to its digital translation service.