New Opera microsite in Hindi
Published May 22nd, 2007 1:29 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanOpera today launched a localized version of www.opera.com in the Hindi language. The site will enable people in India to surf Opera’s website using their native language Hindi, one of the most widely spoken languages in the world.
This follows the launch of the localized versions in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese earlier this month.
Opera now has microsites in: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, and now Hindi.
Visit in.opera.com
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Hindi is the national language of India. It is not necessarily the native language or mother tongue of all Indians. For eg. my mother tongue is Bengali.
Btw, this is kind of off topic. Opera has been showing some interest in India - they already have an office here. Do you have any estimates about number of people using Opera in India?
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@pallab
Why are you interested in the amount of people using Opera in India? There are plenty of people using it in America who read and write in Hindi!
http://www.dhaivat.com, for example - he speaks Hindi! So, it is not only the people in India that Opera is after, but the people who speak Hindi - - - and, trust me, there are plenty of Indians (not Native Americans) in America!
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Yes. You are right there.
Still, I am just interested in knowing how many people in India use Opera. Just a curiosity. As I said, it is kind of off topic.
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Anything to give more people the opportunity to easily use Opera is a good thing. (stating the obvious here)
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Why does not exist opera.com in Norwegian?
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Norway is a tiny market and most Norwegian have no problems what so ever using English?
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Font size is too small - compare with http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/
Another thing, just like most Norwegians have no problem in using English, every Indian who will ever use Opera will have no problem using English. Using opera requires some technical know how, people who are informed enough to use internet have a working knowledge of English - at worst. Even Indian’s do not care about Hindi that much, chances are 90% of the things you buy from a market in India will have labels exclusively in English.
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i am waiting for opera in arabic
due to this article arabic is the forth spoken language (with 206M native) while arab world alone (which consists of just members of arab league, not all whom speak arabic natively) are estimated as 325M, (there is a bebate in the talk page about if it is the second or not.
however, their (our) contribution in the internet usage is ranked the 13th, due to poverty and ignorance.
any way, i can’t told from opera to make for us our localized subdomain untill i can prove our (arabs) existance, i planed to translate opera’s language files, but not very soon.
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Badin, their isn’t currently a translation for opera.com in Norwegian, but their is one translated to english from norwegian.
thanks for all Norwegian people for Opera
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This is a very good initiative from Opera indeed. It would open another world of opputunity to connect with those people who are not aware of the beauty of this browser. Way to go Opera!
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First of all we have two official Norwegian languages called “Bokmål” and “New Norwegian”. Second of all, everyone learn English from 3rd grade or something like that, so if you look away from our grand parents, most people here feel comfortable reading English.
When I studied programming at HiB in Bergen (Norway) non of our computer books where in Norwegian either. Again the same “problem”, small market, and no one really cares to read about it in Norwegian anyway
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This is commendable!! Love you Opera. There are mayn indians (low-income group) who are entering the internet, but the lack of hindi sites is real blockade.
Makes me feel ashamed not knowing how to type in my mother tongue(hindi)
btw Hindi is the world’s third most spoken language.