Google introduced new feature in Gmail that makes it easy to type email in Indian languages. So, now you can happily send email to your friends and family in your native Indian languages. Earlier people did not have an easy way to type and send email in their language of choice.

When you compose an email in Gmail you can see a an icon with an Indian language Hindi character as show in the graphic.  This feature is enabled by default for Indian Gmail users. However if you do not see this feature, you can enable it in settings page under Language section.

Select the Indian language icon and select you language of choice from Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. And type words the way they sound in English ( Transliteration ) and Gmail will automatically convert the word to its Indian local language equivalent. This feature is also available in Orkut, Blogger, iGoogle and Gmail India labs.

We built this new feature using Google’s transliteration technology and it will be available soon to businesses and schools using Google Apps, said Chandramouli Mahadevan, Software Engineer, Google.