[Keyboard] Gujarati Input Swift keyboard

If you are a speaker of India’s many languages then you are in for a treat. After many of you requested more Indian languages, we are excited to let you know that our latest SwiftKey Keyboard for Android beta (5.1) brings 13 new Indian languages.

To download this new beta you will need to join the dedicated SwiftKey Beta for Android Google Group. Please click ‘Join’ then follow the instructions in this group to become a testerand to download the new SwiftKey Beta app from the Google Play Store. Make sure you check it out and make our Indian support even better.

The new languages are: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Nepali and Sinhala (Nepali and Sinhala are not strictly Indian languages but belong to the same Indo-Aryan language family). These languages follow Hindi and Hinglish which are already supported by SwiftKey.

To tie in with our new Indian languages we will also be releasing a very special Diwali theme to mark the upcoming festival – find it in the SwiftKey Store of the Google Play version of the app.

Diwali is known as the ‘festival of lights’ and is generally considered India’s biggest holiday with celebrations going on for several weeks. Traditionally an ancient Hindu festival, Diwali signifies the victory of light over darkness in all senses – over time it has become a national celebration in India, regardless of an individual’s personal faith or religion.