Microsoft Translator now supports Inuktitut

Microsoft recently added the dialect Inuktitut to Microsoft Translator. The addition will let you translate over 70 languages to and from Inuktitut, the primary dialect of the Inuktut language.

Approximately 40,000 Inuit speak Inuktitut across Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Canada. Seventy percent of the residents of Nunavut use Inuktitut. Microsoft worked with the Government of Nunavut for this initiative. Inuktitut speakers volunteered their time to validate and test translations.

Aside from being available on Microsoft translator, it's also accessible in Office and Translator for Bing. Those who use AI-powered Azure Cognitive Services Translator and Azure Cognitive Services Speech can add Inuktitut translation to apps, websites, workflows, and tools, making Inuktitut more accessible at work, at school, and in everyday life, so the language continues to thrive.

As Microsoft points out, we lose one of the world's 7,000 languages every two weeks as they die with the last speaker. And it is predicted we might lose between 50% and 90% of endangered languages by the next century.