Exploring the world’s languages with Language Explorer

November 9, 2026Daan van Esch, Senior Technical Program Manager, Google DeepMind and Uche Okonkwo, Senior Program Manager, Google Research Language Explorer, featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Communication in Berlin, Germany, lets you explore the world’s linguistic diversity online through visualizations and data. Quick links Language Explorer site Exhibition online companion Our world has a fascinating wealth of languages, and for over two decades, Google has been building language technologies that cover as many languages as possible. In 2006, we started a small experiment with Google Translate, supporting just two languages (English and Arabic) at the time. Fast forward…