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feat: Hindi + Tamil + Telugu + Bengali + Kannada + Malayalam localization #51

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Summary

Add native Indian language support to serve India's 900M+ internet users, most of whom prefer their regional language.

Priority Indian languages

Language Speakers Code
🇮🇳 Hindi 600M+ hi
🇮🇳 Tamil 80M+ ta
🇮🇳 Telugu 85M+ te
🇮🇳 Bengali 100M+ bn
🇮🇳 Kannada 50M+ kn
🇮🇳 Malayalam 38M+ ml
🇮🇳 Marathi 95M+ mr
🇮🇳 Gujarati 55M+ gu

Key strings to translate

  • Button labels: "Start Test", "Cancel", "History", "Export"
  • Quality labels: "Excellent", "Good", "Fair", "Poor"
  • Use-case labels: "Calls", "Streaming", "Gaming", "Uploads"
  • Status messages: "Downloading...", "Uploading...", "Test complete"
  • Human-readable explanations: "Good for video calls", "May experience buffering"
  • Settings page text
  • Error messages

Why India-first

  • Largest internet user base globally
  • Most Chrome users worldwide are in India
  • Very few browser extensions offer Indian language support
  • Chrome Web Store algorithm boosts localized extensions in regional searches
  • BSNL/Jio/Airtel users specifically searching for speed test tools in their language

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