Hike goes multilingual to suit Indian users

Hike messenger, which is India’s first homegrown messaging platform, will soon launch its app in eight vernacular Indian languages viz. Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu. The new languages would be launched tomorrow, 23rd December 2015.

With this launch, people and communities across the length and breadth of India would be able to be in touch with their family, friends and contacts in their own native languages.

“Today, we’re excited to launch hike in 8 local languages. For the first time ever millions of Indians will be able to seamlessly chat in their local languages only on hike. Every single hiker will now be able to choose a local language and also with it, see a special keyboard that they can use built specifically for that language. One cannot build for India without understanding the enormous diversity in the country. This is another big step towards catering to that diversity to bring India online,” said Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO & Founder, Hike messenger.

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