SwiftKey adds support for 9 new Indian languages

SwiftKey now supports 22 Indian languages.

SwiftKey’s new Android beta (5.3) release brings adaptive new layouts to Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati and Marathi. The new layouts aim to help users to write more quickly and easily in these languages.

The new update now supports nine new Indian languages. These are Bodo, Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani (in both Devanagari and Kannada scripts), Maithili, Manipuri, Sanskrit, Santali and Sindhi. In total, SwiftKey now supports 22 Indian languages.

Changes to the keyboard beta include:

-Changes to the top row of vowels so they become contextually relevant

-Intuitive layouts for Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati and Marathi keyboards

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-Numbers in both roman and local script are available on the number pad, which has become more intuitive

-The Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi keyboards are laid out in the same way as the alphabet