New Delhi: Microsoft India on Thursday announced the addition of three new Indian languages ​​- Konkani, Maithili and Sindhi, to Translator, as well as Sinhalese, the official language of Sri Lanka.

Microsoft Translator now supports 16 Indian languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. (Also read: Ricky Ponting launches Ponting Wine in India)

“We are delighted to announce that we are expanding our language capabilities to include Maithili, Konkani, Sindhi and Sinhalese. We celebrate and support India’s linguistic and cultural diversity with cutting-edge AI to enable India’s growth, making access to technology ubiquitous,” said Rajiv Kumar, Managing Director of Microsoft India, in a press release (Read also: Top 10 countries with the highest fuel rates)

The company says users can translate Konkani, Maithili, Sindhi, and Sinhala text, which are supported in over 125 languages, for their apps, websites, workflows, and tools with Azure Cognitive Services Translator.

Over two million people in India speak Konkani, mainly in the states of Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka. It is also spoken by significant populations in other parts of India, such as Kerala and Gujarat.

Maithili is spoken by over 75 million people in India and Nepal. It is the second most widely spoken language in Bihar and is also spoken in neighboring states of Jharkhand and West Bengal, the company said.

Sindhi is spoken by over 20 million people in India and several other countries in the subcontinent, while Sinhalese is spoken by over 16 million people in Sri Lanka, as well as Malaysia and Singapore.

Microsoft Translator works on Windows, iOS, Android, and the web.