Friday, September 07, 2007

Orkut now with multi-language support - Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi

The popularity of orkut has surged ahead with each passing day. And with the social networking site becoming such a rage, it was but obvious, that orkut would be launching a regional version soon. And that has become a reality now. Orkut has now support for many Indian regional languages - Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi.Orkut is one universal community where people from many part of the world communicate with each other, often transcending physical and cultural barriers.


Orkut helps you coummunicate with your old friends, relatives and you can make new friends out there too. This universal community is growing day by day and now the latest update is that orkut is available in 5 different languages : Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil and telugu also. This surely comes as a great news for the people who would like to communicate in their native languages, instead of typing the same in english alphabets. India is a stronghold for the networking site with a lot of memberships increasing by each passing minute.
So keeping all this in mind Google finally launched this new feature especially for the Indians. Since in India there are more than 400 different languages spoken, so it was not easy to put all the languages to test right in the beginning. To start with google has choosen 5 languages. These languages cover 80% of the India, so to make a start these were the best suited ones. And with the growing demand, many other regional languages can be expected to come in, like Punjabi and even Urdu.
And Google has ensured that it’s members don’t face too much of a problem while viewing the orkut site in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil or Telugu, which is very easy. Just follow these simple steps:


1. Goto settings button

2. Goto general tab and choose your preferred langauge from the drop down menu

3. Finally save the changes

And start enjoying this amazing feature by Google, which will make orkutting all the more fun. Have a nice time!

Thanks,
Yours Vijju.....

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