11 Indian Languages Hit the Twitter Trend

Twitter has a new surprise in store for people who love tweeting in their native language.  On February 15^th, when India cruised to a comfortable win against Pakistan, tweeters from across the globe celebrated India’s victory through the hashtag #जयहिन्द.

Although twitter had rolled out support for hashtags in a number of different local languages a few days before the penultimate battle, not many noticed it. Eden Golshani, Software Engineer at Twitter sent out a few tweets to test the newest feature of twitter last week, demonstrating support for 11 Indian languages, namely:

• Devanagari (Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Sanskrit)
• Bengali
• Gujarati
• Punjabi
• Oriya
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Malayalam
• Kannada

The overwhelming response to India’s win on twitter through the hashtag #जयहिन्द, was the first ever Devnagiri script to trend on Twitter. While we await some popular trends in other Indian languages as well, Tamil users would be delighted to learn that #தமிழ்வாழ்க, (Tamilvalka), which means 'Long Live Tamil' recently made it to the top Twitter trend in India.

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