Be it “what’s on your mind?” or the “like” or “share” buttons, a dedicated community of Facebook users want to make sure all the words and phrases on the social networking service are accurately translated into their native tongues.

In all, Facebook is now available in 101 languages with the addition on Friday of Maltese (the official language of Malta that has more than 400,000 native speakers), Pulaar (a dialect of Fula spoken by more than 7 million across West and Central Africa), and Corsican (spoken by some 200,000 people and listed on UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger).

Human-powered translation is critical to Facebook’s growth. More than 1 billion of the 1.7 billion people who use Facebook speak a language other than English. That number undoubtedly will increase as more people connect to the Internet. More.

See: USA TODAY

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