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
Implementation
Summary
Add native Indian language support to serve India's 900M+ internet users, most of whom prefer their regional language.
Priority Indian languages
hitatebnknmlmrguKey strings to translate
Why India-first
Implementation
chrome.i18nAPI with_locales/hi/messages.json, etc.