Happy Birthday Gboard keyboard supports over 500 languages ​​and 40 scripts

As of this week, Gboard, Google’s own keyboard for Android and iOS, supports more than five hundred languages ​​and forty different scripts. The app is exactly two years old this month.

Thanks to the support of more than 500 languages, 90 percent of the world’s population can now communicate in their native language with their smartphone, Google states in a blog post. Gboard also handles more than 40 different scripts, from the widespread Roman and Cyrillic alphabets to Ol Chiki, a script used only in a single language: Santali. Smart typing functions, such as autocorrect and predictive text, have also been optimized separately for each language.

The Gboard keyboard was first released in December 2016 for the Android platform with support for about a hundred languages. Later a version for iOS followed. More than 100 new languages ​​have been added to Gboard in recent months, including Nigerian Pidgin, Balinese and Rangpuri.