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Yandex: the translator that gives a voice to minorities TRANSLATOR, INTERNET, YANDEX While the Google Translator offers the possibility to translate more than a hundred languages, its competitor, Russian Yandex by now it has only 94. But unlike the us giant, the company's Russian computer gives the possibility of translating minority languages, and even includes the language elvish, sindar. The service Yandex Translator has created a unique collection of languages that have an important cultural significance. Yandex launched its translator in 2011, back then the program only 'spoke' in three languages: Russian, Ukrainian and English. Currently, Yandex Translator has become a polyglot. Since its 'birth' Yandex has learned many languages, including papiamento, a language spoken by about 300,000 people on the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba, located near the coast of Venezuela. The machine learn a language in two stages. First...