to get the project off the ground through the `` Google in Your Language '' program , which was launched by the California-based company not long after it was founded in 1998 . `` The idea was to enable users worldwide to be able to access Google in the language of their choice , and if it was n't available , to enable users to help make it so , '' Google spokesman Nate Tyler said . `` Why limit users to a set of dominant languages if they were willing to help make Google their own ? '' The results of the search are still in English , although the user can select a preference for Web pages written in more than 40 other main languages . Google works with linguists like Donaghy who are interested in translating search instructions into their language . `` Volunteers sign up on their own to provide translation , '' Tyler explained . `` They simply sign themselves up , declare a language proficiency , and then start translating or reviewing the products that are available for volunteer translation . `` When the translations are completed , we make the product -LRB- s
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Many Google users probably did n't notice this month that they can now display their search tips in the Hawaiian language . Hawaiian is one of more than 125 `` interface languages '' now available on Google . Wedged between Hausa and Hebrew , Hawaiian is one of more than 125 `` interface languages '' now available on Google . The list also includes some humorous twists on English , including `` pirate , '' `` Klingon '' and `` Elmer Fudd . '' But for Hawaiian educators , the addition of Hawaiian is a small step toward legitimizing a language that is considered '' critically endangered '' by the United Nations . `` It 's the capstone of a lot of work , '' said Keola Donaghy , an assistant professor of Hawaiian studies at the University of Hawaii-Hilo . `` We 've been doing this work for 18 years , simply trying to make it easier for people who speak Hawaiian to use these kinds of technologies . '' It marks the first native American language available through the `` Google in Your Language '' program . Getting started It took Donaghy several years