Dr. Yarowsky said he hoped to have working translation systems for as many as 100 languages within five years.
But as many as 120 languages, from Italian to Pashto, are spoken by those involved in the heroin trade.
Mr. Schurmann, who was fluent in as many as 12 languages and read a variety of foreign papers daily, taught history and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, for nearly four decades.
Al-Idrīsī's scientific interests embraced medical matters as well, and his Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufradah ("Book of Simple Drugs"), in which he lists the names of drugs in as many as 12 languages, demonstrates the range of his linguistic abilities.
While there is no precise count, some experts believe New York is home to as many as 800 languages — far more than the 176 spoken by students in the city's public schools or the 138 that residents of Queens, New York's most diverse borough, listed on their 2000 census forms.
As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
"Persado Enterprise" includes options for email, display advertising, social advertising, landing pages, SMS and push notifications in as many as 23 languages.
Hundred North-American long-distance telephone conversations are recorded in each of twelve languages (the same as 11 languages as OGI-TS plus Arabic).
As the author of more than 40 books–most of which have been translated, some into as many as 30 languages–I have some insight into the process whereby English spreads.
The preview program starts with support for English and Spanish spoken translation, as well as over 40 languages for real-time text chat.
