Hausa, one of Nigeria’s major
language, has been added to Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the
social media platform. According to a post on his wall, Mark reckons that more
than one billion users communicate using languages other than English, hence
the need to expand the horizon and accommodate other lingua franca.He wrote:
“Facebook is now available in more than 100 languages with more than one
billion people using a language other than English!
Today we added Fula,
Maltese and Corsican. Over the last decade, hundreds
of thousands of people around the world have worked together to find the right
translations for words and phrases in the Facebook interface. “Because the idea
of a “Like” in English may mean something different in Arabic or Japanese.
“This matters because for people to share what matters to them and see what
matters to the people they care about, they need services available in a
language they know.
Mark Zuckerberg made this known
while speaking on the first day of his visit to Nigeria, which began in Lagos
state; the visit was his first to Africa. He met with youths who associate
themselves with technology companies to further encourage them while a
statement by the Facebook company said Zuckerberg went to Nigeria for a
business research which culminated in meeting with Nigeria Vice President and President.
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