Language translation ajax api for Indian languages from Google

March 12th, 2009 by Sunil

Language translation ajax api help you to detect and translate language with in a webpage. It also supports right to left languages like Arabic etc. You can add the translation in your website / blog also. It is very simple and it supports most of the Indian languages. Ohh!!  Google rocks!

Google Translation ajax api

Google Translation ajax api

Google is providing us to test full code with Google playground. So you can test the code live and play around with to better understand how to use this API. In this ajax playground there is not only the ajax language translation, there are a bunch of utility scripts.

I am not able to describe all the facilities in the Language translation ajax api. A few are listed here

  1. Language Translation
  2. Language Detection
  3. Detection of Unicode font rendering support
  4. Source Detection during Translation
  5. Branding
  6. Transliteration Control with Single Language
  7. Transliteration Control with Multiple Languages
  8. Transliteration with Custom Control
  9. Transliteration Using the Low Level API

Google also providing code snippets that demonstrate access to the service from Flash, Java, PHP.

Google Translation ajax api

Google Translation ajax api

View complete documentation from Google documentation

As we know, it is a new service from Google, so there may be some bugs. Google promises that they will fill the holes. If you are thinking about a normal user, I am damn sure that it is very good attempt from Google to help developers as well as a normal user.

Update:

I have updated my comment form with this api. It is working fine. Now you can comment it on some Indian languages and Arabic. Check my comment form now.

  1. Sunil says:

    ഹലോ ഞാന്‍ ഈ കമന്റ് ടെസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യുന്നു . My first comment in malayalam is successful.

    • Shankar says:

      I want develop a site which will provide information in each indian regional language. When any body will select a language the entire site will converted into the selected language.

  2. Mattiz says:

    क्या बात है? बड़ी सुन्दर कमेन्ट बॉक्स बनाया है !! कांग्रट्स सुनील भाई.

  3. Mattiz says:

    ശെരി ആണോ? അജക്ക്സ് ഒത്രി സമയം എട്കും ലോഡ് ചെയാന്‍?

  4. Mattiz says:

    खूब सुन्दर आहे हा कमेन्ट बॉक्स . ह्याचा माघे रास काय ?
    That was Marathi, Great work Sunil. You are uptodate in these things :)

  5. Mattiz says:

    الله أكبر what was that ? :)

  6. Praveen Vijayan says:

    ഇതു കിടിലന്‍ feature തന്നെ… ഇതു എങ്ങനെ ചെയ്യുന്നു എന്ന് കൂടി‌ ബ്ലോഗ് ചെയ്യാമോ ?

  7. ACHUSUNIL says:

    അസ്സലായിട്ടുണ്ട് കേട്ടോ.

  8. Remiz says:

    ഇത് കൊള്ളാലോ

  9. aasha says:

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