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Microsoft to add 40 languages to Windows

WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- Forty new languages will be introduced into Microsoft Windows as part of a project to ease usage by minority language speakers, the BBC reported Wednesday.

Linguistic groups to benefit from the expansion will be speakers of Welsh, Gujarati and Tamil in India, of Catalan in Spain, and of Bahasa in Malaysia.

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Native languages from Northern Canada and Ethiopia will also be added.

Start menus and instructions like 'save' and 'search' will be introduced, said Microsoft.

The company's worldwide public sector senior vice president Maggie Wilderotter said they were working with governments and academics to develop the languages over the next year, for Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003.

Microsoft programs already run in 40 languages including English, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese variants.

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