Updated 31/8/2009
If you use Google Docs, the "Tool" drop-down allows you to produce a machine translation of the document into any of 51 42 languages, including, as of today, Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh, and Yiddish. For more on the newly available language pairs, see this 31/8/2009 piece in the Google Research Blog by Franz Och, Principal Research Scientist. Excerpt:
"We're very happy that our technology allows us to produce machine translation systems for languages that often don't get the attention they deserve. For many of the newly supported languages ours is the only mature and freely available translation system. While translation quality in these languages will be noticeably rougher than for languages we've supported for a longer time like French or Spanish, it is most often good enough to give a basic understanding of the text, and you can be sure that the quality will get better over time."
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