Leading social networking site, Facebook has launched Indian language interface on Thursday (May 7). With the help of the new interface, people can navigate Facebook in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and Malayalam. The social networking has recently announced that it's user base has crossed 200 million mark. With the help of the new Indian language interface, Facebook is expecting to further increase its user base.

 

The new move by Facebook will help it combat with Google's Orkut, which is by far the dominant social networking site in India. But, the drawback with Facebook's new Indian language service is that there is no transliteration available. The social networking site can benefit from Indian language services only if it allows users to compose messages in Indian languages. However, Google has also not incorporated transliteration into Orkut.