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YouTube adds Arabic to interface list

Google has finally added Arabic to its YouTube language list, giving hundreds of millions of native Arabic speakers a chance to change their YouTube interface to their native language.

Arabic is now the 36th language available to YouTube fans.



Reports have claimed the new interface is still buggy, however, and lacking compared to the English version.

Last year, telecom executives in Jordan said a full 40 percent of all Internet traffic in Arab nations goes to YouTube.

Google is releasing six new languages this month, including Lithuanian, Slovenian and Vietnamese.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 30 Sep 2010 14:21

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• 3 comments

• Jemborg

  YouTube is still a phenomenon.
  

  Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
  
  
  

  4.10.2010 04:02 #1

• Mez

  Yes, another smash hit for Google.

  4.10.2010 08:17 #2

• Jemborg

  Originally posted by Laadi: I came a week ago from Egypt and Israel,
  its funny how many people i saw using Myspace or Facebook and how many kids i saw who not go to school or write there own name. Are you making a comment on the divide between rich and poor or privileged and underprivileged?
  

  Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
  
  
  

  28.10.2010 08:18 #3