Google is rolling out support for 18 new languages for Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides today, bringing the total up to a whopping 65. Users can switch back and forth between languages as often as they want, and collaboration is supported across languages. The new additions are supported on mobile devices as well, so shoot your long distance friend an invite and give the new languages as go.

The new languages are:

  • Afrikaans
  • Amharic
  • Basque
  • Chinese (Hong Kong)
  • Estonian
  • French (Canada)
  • Galician
  • Icelandic
  • Khmer
  • Lao
  • Malaysian
  • Nepali
  • Persian
  • Sinhalese
  • Spanish (Latin America)
  • Swahili
  • Urdu
  • Zulu

To change the language on your computer, simply click the gear icon within Google Drive and select Settings. The language drop-down menu can be found under "General." As for mobile devices, the Google Drive app follows the system-wide language settings. If you don't already have Google Drive, just hit up the widget below.

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Source: Google Drive Blog