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Four new Indian languages on YouTube: Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu
Thursday, February 23, 2012
YouTube
opened its doors in India in May 2008, and since then we’ve been working to make YouTube accessible for the entire Indian population — and its 30 regional languages. Beyond Hindi and English, we’ve added Urdu, Marathi, Bengali, and Tamil over the years, and today we’re welcoming four more to YouTube.
Now you can navigate the site in
Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu
, which are spoken by almost 200 million Indians. This also brings the total of available languages on YouTube to 58.
For Telugu, we have more than 100 films of Tollywood cinema, as well as partners like vegetarian cooking channel
Gayatrivantillu
who make videos for the web and have a growing global audience. For Kannada,
Shemaroo Kannada
and
Anand Audio
bring you music, drama, comedy and more to your homepage
guide
. Fans of Malayalam cinema should check out channels like
Metro Matinee Videos
and
Hungama Malayalam
. When it comes to news, YouTube’s partners like TV 9 provide news in both
Kannada
and
Gujarati
, and
TheTimesKerala
offers clips in Malayalam.
Gujarati
Kannada
Malayalam
Telugu
We hope this helps even more of you enjoy channels on YouTube in your native language, as we work to make the site accessible around the world.
Aditi Rajwanshi, YouTube India partner manager, recently watched "
Chutney for Idli, Dosa, Upma, Vada etc
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YouTube now speaks IsiZulu and Afrikaans
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Cross posted from the
Google Africa Blog
.
For many Africans online, the Internet is something created by other people which we simply consume. We see this with many African languages that have a dominant presence offline (on radio, TV, newspapers), yet are underrepresented on the web today. Seeing your language appear on global services like Google Search, YouTube, or Gmail can help change that. Suddenly, you become part of the conversation.
Last November we launched
YouTube in Kiswahili and Amharic
with precisely this in mind. We soon began to see many people enjoying the new versions, and also saw an increase in searches, video uploads and comments in both languages.
Today, we are excited to release 2 more African language versions of YouTube - in
Afrikaans
and
isiZulu
.
This is important for several reasons. First, the new language versions create awareness among new users who are not fluent in English and have not been able to fully enjoy or understand YouTube. Second, it’s a reminder of the great local content in both languages that is increasingly finding its way to YouTube in South Africa, a country blessed with creative talent - for a taste, sample and subscribe to
MduComics
,
JusGorilla
,
Die Heuwels Fantasties
, and
Jack Parow
. There’s a lot more out there. Lastly, YouTube in South Africa is already over a year old, and with YouTube views increasing by 175% in the past year, we were eager to introduce these new features on the local domain.
If you are a native Afrikaans or IsiZulu speaker, we invite you to join this celebration, and here’s how:
Visit Youtube.co.za. At the bottom of the page, click on language and select Afrikaans or Zulu.
Upload a video!
Share it on Google+ or Twitter with #YoutubeIsiZulu or #YoutubeAfrikaans.
Ian Parsons & Mthokozisi Dlalisa - Afrikaans & IsiZulu specialists, Google South Africa, recently watched "
Nicholis Louw - Baby Baby
."
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