Google Drive, Docs now in Afrikaans, Amharic, Swahili, and Zulu

Google has expanded the number of the languages available on Drive, its cloud storage product.

The internet giant announced today that you can now edit your documents, sheets and slides in 18 new languages, including Afrikaans, Amharic, Swahili, and Zulu, bringing the total number of supported languages up to 65.

According to Google, you can also switch between the languages as often as you like. You can also collaborate with people using another language in real-time.

To try Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides in another language, you can switch by:

1. Clicking the gear icon in the upper right, then select Settings.
2. Under General, select a language from the drop-down menu in the Language section.
3. Click Save.

To change the language for Google Drive for mobile, go to your device’s language settings. If you don’t yet have Drive for mobile, you can visit the Google Play or the Apple App Store to get the Google Drive app.

The 18 new languages are: Afrikaans, Amharic, Basque, Chinese (Hong Kong), Estonian, French (Canada), Galician, Icelandic, Khmer, Lao, Malaysian, Nepali, Persian, Sinhalese, Spanish (Latin America), Swahili, Urdu, Zulu.

The kind of collaborative, multi-lingual ability offered by Drive means that, if pushed properly, it could see serious adoption in emerging markets, where internet connections are getting cheaper but software can still be prohibitively expensive.