You can now use Gmail to send emails in Indian languages.

I you live in India or hail from India and are more comfortable in reading/sending emails in Indian languages you can now send emails in some of the most popular Indian languages, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. If your native language is not English or if you have friends and contacts in India who are more comfortable with their local language than reading emails on English then there is good news for you.

Gmail now supports Indian languages when you send emails. You have to enable the feature to start using it.

Navigate to Gmail “Settings“.

On the “General” tab check the option “Enable Transliteration” and scroll down to “Save Changes“.

Once enabled you can now start using any of those Indian languages to compose your Gmail email.

Just start typing the foreign language in English. For example, the word “vanakkam” in Tamil means “welcome” in English but we want Gmail to send the word “vanakkam” in Tamil instead.

So when we type the word “vanakkam” and press the space bar Gmail will transliterate the English version of the Tamil word to Tamil (using Unicode, of course). Similarly you can send an email in any of those Indian languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.

I hope you find Gmail Transliteration an useful feature particularly if you have to (prefer to) send emails in any of those supported Indian languages.

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