Twitter Likes Malayalam. Translation Coming Soon.
Twitter is ‘planning to get translated into just about all of the world’s major languages’ and Malayalam is in the list! Yay. English & Japanese versions are fully live and French, Italian, German and Spanish are mostly complete.
The translation is volunteered by tweeples having knowledge of a particular language that’s in the “to-be translated” list. Quoting the official text -
“We’re currently in an invite-only mode while we improve our tools, but may allow any Twitterer to help translate at some time in the future.”
It’s a honor to see Malayalam being regarded one among world’s major languages, thanks to the sizable population. There are a decent number of active twitterers from Kerala; so things should work smooth. All major Indian languages - Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, Kannada, Marathi and Malayalam – are included in the list. Out of the 49 languages in the list, 9 are Indian. Awesome!
More information about the translation programme and the sign up form is available at http://twitter.com/translate
Wow! Now thats something really awesome! Malayalam making it into the list of other world languages!!