Wednesday, February 22, 2012 | 1:35 PM
Today, we are adding Esperanto to Google Translate, making it our 64th supported language.
Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof started his quest for an easy-to-learn language shared by all people in the 1870s and first published the ideas in 1887 with his book Unua Libro. The concept of a common language spread quickly, and initial reactions to Esperanto have ranged from suppression to enthusiastic embrace. Now, 125 years later, Esperanto has hundreds of thousands of active speakers, millions of people with some knowledge of the language, and even a few hundred people who learned it from birth, taught by their parents.
Esperanto and Google Translate share the goal of helping people understand each other, this connection has been made even in this blog post. Therefore, we are very excited that we can now offer translation for this language as well.
The Google Translate team was actually surprised about the high quality of machine translation for Esperanto. As we know from many experiments, more training data (which in our case means more existing translations) tends to yield better translations. For Esperanto, the number of existing translations is comparatively small. German or Spanish, for example, have more than 100 times the data; other languages on which we focus our research efforts have similar amounts of data as Esperanto but don’t achieve comparable quality yet. Esperanto was constructed such that it is easy to learn for humans, and this seems to help automatic translation as well.
Although the system is still far from perfect, we hope that our latest addition helps you to learn more about Esperanto’s history and culture. Translation to and from Esperanto will soon be available on translate.google.com, in our mobile web app, and in the Google Translate app for Android and iOS.
Posted by Thorsten Brants, Research Scientist, Google Translate
Archivo:1908-kl-t-zamenhof.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, creador del idioma esperanto.


Por medio de un comunicado del blog de su traductor, la compañía Google comunicó el día de ayer la adición del esperanto a su lista de idiomas traducibles en su traductor en línea, convirtiendo así al esperanto en su sexagésimo cuarto idioma traducible y el único idioma planificado con soporte para ello.

Según el comunicado, el equipo del traductor de Google se encuentra sorprendido con la alta calidad de las traducciones, a lo que ellos mismos atribuyen a la misma estructura del idioma, desarrollado para ser de fácil aprendizaje.



Google destaca entre la comunidad esperantista debido al su apoyo hacia el también conocido como el idioma internacional, pues presta sus servicios de forma gratuita a páginas relacionadas con el aprendizaje de este idioma. El 15 de febrero de 2009 dedicó uno de sus famosos ''doodles'' al esperanto, mostrando en su página principal el logo de Google junto a la bandera del esperanto; e incluso el famoso buscador tiene una página de  búsqueda totalmente en este idioma.