14 DAY TRIAL // SwiftKey is without a doubt one of the most advanced keyboard apps out there, and every single update brings new goodies that improve the overall experience.
In addition to its impressive prediction and suggestion engine, Microsoft’s SwiftKey also comes with support for an insane number of languages, therefore making typing in a certain language as convenient as possible.
In many cases, SwiftKey is being updated with languages you didn’t know existed, and this is the case of the latest update that was released on Android.
Version 7.9.8.9 comes with support for three new languages, namely Bilen, Silt’e, and Tigrayit. I’m pretty sure you never heard of them (neither did I), and this makes total sense.
Tigrayit, for example, is an Ethiopian Semitic language that comes from none other than the Horn of Africa. And if you think nobody speaks this language, you’re kind of wrong, because according to the official numbers, there are no more, no less than 1 million native speakers.
More and more languages
Without a doubt, it’s something truly remarkable that Microsoft somehow manages to keep adding more and more languages to SwiftKey, especially because some of them are pretty hard to implement. Tigrayit uses the Tigre alphabet, and as a matter of fact, it’s recognized as a minority language in countries like Sudan and Eritrea.
Needless to say, Microsoft will probably continue to expand SwiftKey on this front, so keeping an eye on the app’s changelogs is actually a very good way to learn new things about languages used across the world.
Other than this, the latest version of SwiftKey on Android also includes a fix for a bug making it impossible for the app to provide suggestions learned from the auto-completable text fields in Firefox browser.
The new version is now rolling out to devices via the Google Play Store.