Delhi: Microsoft Translator has added translation text for Odia, and other regional languages will be available soon, in the Microsoft Translator app, Office 365, Bing Translator, and through the Azure Cognitive Services Translator API (application programming interface) for businesses and developers.
Odia is spoken by 35 million people in India and across the world. It joins Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and English as the 12th commonly used language of the Indian subcontinent to be available in Microsoft Translator.
Odia is one of six languages of India to be granted to the status of a “Classical Language” by the Indian government and has a history of literature stretching back over 1000 years.
It is an Indo-European language native to Eastern India and also the official language of the Indian state of Odisha and is also spoken in the nearby states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh.