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Detailed explanation-1: -ICCR on Thursday signed an MoU with Google to ease searching the Internet in Sanskrit and provided the search engine giant one lakh commonly used sentences in the language with their English and Hindi translations.

Detailed explanation-2: -24 new languages have been added to Google Translate, including Assamese, Bhojpuri, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo and Sanskrit.

Detailed explanation-3: -At Google I/O 2022, the company announced that Google Translate now supports 24 more languages including Indian languages such as Sanskrit, Bhojpuri, Dogri and others. The translation tool from tech giant now supports a total of 133 languages that are used around the globe.

Detailed explanation-4: -Apart from Sanskrit, the other Indian languages in the latest iteration of Google Translate are Assamese, Bhojpuri, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Mizo and Meiteilon (Manipuri), taking the total number of Indian languages supported by the service to 19.

Detailed explanation-5: -ICCR and Google had earlier signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance the tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) language technology for translating Sanskrit literature to many other languages and vice-versa.