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Locale En in

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Use when working with the English (India) locale (`en-IN`) — its endonym English (India), Latin script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.

Reference data for the English (India) locale — endonym English (India), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

  • BCP 47 tag: en-IN
  • ISO 639-1: en
  • ISO 639-3: eng
  • Script: Latn (Latin)
  • Region: IN (India)
  • Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

  • L1 (native): 300,000
  • L2 (additional): 125,000,000
  • L1+L2 (total): 125,300,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale En 001 (English), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

  • one — i = 1 and v = 0 (e.g. 1)
  • other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale En 001 and use these Indian conventions. Indian English is the working language of business, law, and education, and is more formal in register than US or UK English.

  • Spelling: British forms (-ise is common, -our, -re); "program" is used for software.
  • Numbers: the Indian digit-grouping system is used in India (12,34,567; "lakh" and "crore" in prose), as in the CLDR en-IN data; international texts may use millions and billions. State which you use. The rupee symbol is ₹.
  • Dates: day/month/year, 12-hour clock in consumer contexts.
  • Common non-standard forms: "do the needful", "revert back", "prepone", "kindly", and "out of station" are widespread in India but read as unusual elsewhere; use plain alternatives ("please do what is needed", "reply", "move earlier") for international readers.
  • Names and terms: use correct local transliteration for names and places ("Bengaluru", "Mumbai").

Common pitfalls

  • Using "revert" to mean "reply", or "prepone", in material for a global audience.
  • Mixing lakh/crore and million/billion in the same document without explanation.
  • The general pitfalls in Locale En 001 also apply.

Learn more

  • Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
  • Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
  • Microsoft Writing Style Guide (https://learn.microsoft.com/style-guide/welcome/)
  • Unicode CLDR locale data for date, number, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)

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