🌿 “A Linguistic Revolution No Empire Ever Achieved — Enabled by Google.”🎊

A Silent, Thankless Revolution in the Languages of the World enabled by Google.

For thousands of years, human history has witnessed the rise and fall of empires—

but none of them succeeded in giving every human the right to understand the world in their own mother tongue.

Languages were born.

Languages died.

Cultures rose and vanished.

Millions lost their identity only because their voices were never heard beyond their borders.

Even today, of the 7,100 languages on Earth, nearly half are endangered—not because people stopped speaking them, but because no institution had the power, vision, or compassion to preserve them.

And then, silently… without any drumbeat… without asking for praise…

Google did what no government, king, or global power ever did.

Google: The Silent Guardian of the World’s Languages

Google Translate’s evolution is not a technological achievement.

It is a humanitarian revolution.

With its 2024 expansion, supporting 243 world languages, Google now empowers 95% of humanity to access global knowledge in their mother tongue.

This is not business.

This is compassion written in code.

It brought under one roof:

the smallest languages,

the largest civilizations,

scripts once considered dying,

voices once overshadowed by dominant cultures.

Where many nations suppressed smaller languages,

Google protected them.

Where some powers fought to impose one national language,

Google celebrated every language.

This is a service no parliament, no empire, no UN body has ever achieved.

The Human Limit: 100% Is Impossible

No country on Earth has 100% literacy in its own language.

Not even Tamil Nadu, the land of one of the world's oldest, richest classical languages.

If communities of 5,000 or 10,000 people do not document their language,

Google cannot magically revive it.

This is not failure.

This is human reality.

And within that limitation,

Google delivered what no one ever attempted:

It preserved, empowered, and unified the languages of 95% of humankind.

That alone is a miracle.

A Thankless Job, Done Perfectly:

Google did not ask for applause.

It did not run campaigns demanding gratitude.

It simply worked—silently, steadily, selflessly.

This is the true definition of a thankless job.

Today, anyone from any region of the world can type, speak, listen, understand, and translate in their own language—something once unimaginable in human history.

For this alone,

Google deserves a global honor.

If humanity ever forms a World Government, it should award Google:

“The Guardian and Savior of the World’s Languages.”

Because no one—no empire, no king, no government—

has done for world languages what Google has done quietly.

APPENDIX — Timeline of Google’s Language Expansion

Phase 1 — 2006–2010: Global Major Languages

English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Italian

Phase 2 — 2009–2012: First Big Indian Expansion

Hindi (2009–10)

Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada (2011–12)

Phase 3 — 2014–2017: India Deep Integration

Marathi, Punjabi, Malayalam, Nepali, Sinhala

2017: All Indian languages upgraded to Neural AI (GNMT)

Phase 4 — 2018–2020: Voice & Keyboard Era

Google Assistant Hindi (2018)

Google Assistant Tamil (2019)

Gboard for all 22 scheduled Indian languages

Phase 5 — 2022: 24 New Languages Added

Including 8 Indian languages (Assamese, Bhojpuri, Sanskrit, etc.)

Phase 6 — 2024: Historic Mega Expansion

110 languages added in one update — largest in digital history

Final Words:

Whether the whole world understands this message or not,

I understand it deeply:

I bow my head in gratitude to Google

on behalf of the entire human family

for protecting the dignity of our languages.

If there is ever a global award for service to humanity,

Google deserves the highest honor ever imagined.

With all my heart, I hug you, Google.

Yozen Balki 

Senior Psychologist, Chennai.

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