You will now be able to send emails in the language of your choice - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam through Gmail. Google India has introduced new feature - Indic Language transliteration on Gmail and Google Apps that facilitates typing and sending in Indian languages.

The "transliteration" feature allows Gmail users to type in the local languages, using an English language keyboard. Currently, Gmail supports 5 Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. The language of your can be selected from the drop-down list next to the icon.

So, next time while composing your mail in Gmail, don't forget to find an icon with a Hindi character that has been enabled by default for Gmail users in India. If this function hasn't been enabled by default yet, you can put it on by going to the "Settings" page and enabling this function in the "Language" section.

Clicking on the Indian languages icon, you can start tying on English language keyboard and Gmail's new feature automatically changes the word into its Indian local language equivalent. According to Google India, the transliteration will also be available on Google India Labs, Orkut, Blogger and iGoogle.

The other companies offering Indic transliteration include Quillpad from Tachyon Technologies, in which Rediff has
26% stake. Tachyon had powered Rediff's Indic language capabilities.