Icelandic, Latvian, and Serbian (changed from eSpeak to a natural voice). New speech system (WaveNet) for several languages. 48th stage (launched January 2022) Speech program launched in Hebrew. 49th stage (launched May 2022) Assamese Aymara Bambara Bhojpuri Dogri Ewe Guarani Ilocano Konkani Krio Kurdish (Sorani) Lingala Luganda Maithili Maldivian Meitei Mizo Northern Sotho Oromo Quechua Sanskrit Tigrinya Tsonga Twi eSpeak voice synthesizer removed from Armenian, Esperanto, Macedonian and Welsh. 50th stage (launched November 2022) Speech program launched in Albanian, Bosnian and Swahili (changed from eSpeak to natural). New speech program launched in Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil. Languages in development and beta version The following languages are not yet supported by Google Translate, but are available in the Translate Community. As of , there are 103 languages in development, of which 9 are in beta version. The languages in beta version are closer to their public release and have an exclusive extra option to contribute that allows evaluating up to 4 translations of the beta version by translating an English text of up to 50 characters. There is currently a petition for Google to add Cree to Google Translate, but as of , it is not one of the languages in development yet. Acehnese Adyghe Afar Aragonese Avar (Avaric) Bagheli Balochi (Baluchi) Bangala Baoulé Bashkir Berber (Tamazight) Betawi Boro (India) (Bodo) Breton Cantonese Chechen Cherokee Chhattisgarhi Chittagonian Chuvash Deccani Dholuo Dyula Dzongkha Edo Efik Esan Fon Fula (Fulah) Gagauz Garhwali Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) Haryanvi Hiligaynon Inuktitut Isoko Kamba Kanuri Kapampangan (Pampanga) Karachay-Balkar Karakalpak (Kara-Kalpak) Kashmiri Kedah Malay Khakas Khandeshi (Ahirani) Khorasani Turkic Kikuyu Kokborok (Tripuri) Kumyk Kʼicheʼ Lakota Lhasa Tibetan (Tibetan) Luba-Kasai (Tshiluba) Luba-Katanga Madurese Magahi Marwari Mazanderani Minangkabau Montenegrin Mooré (Mossi) Navajo Newar (Nepalbhasa) Nigerian Pidgin Northern Sami Occitan Pattani Malay Qashqai Rajasthani Rangpuri (Kamtapuri) Rohingya Romansh Sadri Salar Samogitian Sango Santali Saraiki Serrano Shor Siberian Tatar Sicilian Southern Altai Southern Ndebele Surjapuri Swahili Congo Sylheti Tiv Toba Batak (Batak Toba) Tok Pisin Tonga (Zambia and Zimbabwe) (Chitonga) Tswana (Setswana) Tswa Tuvan (Tuvinian) Urhobo Urum Varhadi (Varhadi-Nagpuri) Venda (Tshivenda) Wolof Yakut Yucatec Maya (Yucateco) Zaza (Zazaki) Zhuang Translation methodology In April 2006, Google Translate launched with a statistical machine translation engine. Google Translate does not apply grammatical rules, since its algorithms are based on statistical or pattern analysis rather than traditional rule-based analysis. The system's original creator, Franz Josef Och, has criticized the effectiveness of rule-based algorithms in favor of statistical