Google Translate for 5 Indian Languages

In an effort to reach out to the local community, search engine giant Google has announced its translation services for five Indian languages namely Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telgu. With the inclusion of new languages, the total number of languages supported by Google Translate has risen to 63. Google says these languages are presently in experimental phase, nothing that Indian languages are different from English language. It also highlights that the new languages supported by its online translation service are spoken by over 500 million people in India and Bangladesh.
Google's research scientist Ashish Venugopal writes on Google Blog, "Indic languages differ from english in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. India languages often use the Subject Object (SOV) ordering. This difference in sentence structure makes it harder to produce fluent translations: the more words that need to be reordered, the more words that need to be reordered, the more chance there is to make mistakes when moving them".
He also points out that these new languages are likely to be less fluent and may have several untranslated words as compared to languages such as Spanish and Chinese which he says have much more of the web content that powers Google's statistical machine translation approach. He concludes his post hoping the new alpha languages will help users have better understanding of the Indic web and encourage publication of new content in Indic languages.