Mark Zuckerberg , Facebook founder, announced on Friday that Hausa, Fulani and two other languages have been added to the social media platform thereby making the platform more user-friendly. During his recent visit to Nigeria, he expressly stated that the Hausa language will be added to the social platform.
In his words "Facebook is now available in more than 100 languages - with more than one billion people using it in a language other than English. Today, we added Fula, Maltese and Corsican.
Our community makes this possible. Over the last decade, hundreds of thousands of people around the world have worked together to find the right translations for words and phrases in the Facebook interface. Because the idea of a 'like' in English may mean something different in Arabic or Japanese.
For people to share what matters to them and see what matters to the people they care about, they need the services available in a language they know. Some of the languages we've
added don't have meaningful presence on the internet".
Others like Corsican are in danger of disappearing altogether according to UNESCO.
Facebook is now available in 100 languages.
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