Google has added support for 13 new languages including Nepali in Gmail on the web and feature phone browsers. With this, the company claims that Gmail is now available in 71 languages, up from 58 languages before. It currently supports nine Indian languages including Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi and Malayalam. Users can change their language by heading over to the Gmail settings and selecting their preferred language from the "Gmail display language" drop-down menu in the "Language" section. Following this, the Gmail interface starts appearing in their chosen language. Google claims that it has worked closely with linguists around the world to make that the tone and style of the languages is right, since each language has its own nuances. For example, both Nepali and Hindi uses the Devanagari characters for writing, however Gmail’s Nepali language uses इनबक्स for “Inbox” instead of इनबॉक्स in Hindi, since it is apparently a spelling variation unique to Nepali. Google had also introduced Hindi handwriting support for Gmail and Google Drive last October and launched Indic language support for Gmail on feature phone browsers in March last year. Other Indic initiatives from Google - Last week, Google had released a new version of Google Keyboard, adding support for Indian English. - Google had also added voice input translations in Google Translate last month to support 8 Indian languages, although it hadn't worked when we last checked. - Earlier in March this year, Google had introduced handwriting input mode for five Indian languages - Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu on the web and…
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