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In January 2016, Google said that in English mode its keyboard let you type Hinglish and get suggestions for both Hinglish and English words.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

In the source's own words

“you can type in Hinglish and get suggestions for Hinglish and English”

An easier way to type in Hindi and 10 other Indian languages, Google, Google, The Keyword (blog.google), 2016, Body text, describing English mode.

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What it measures
Hinglish is Hindi written in Latin letters with English words mixed in. The keyboard's English mode offered suggestions for both kinds of word as you typed.
What it does not show
A 2016 description of the product. It does not say how often the suggestions are right, and the current keyboard may behave differently.

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Google's Indic keyboard suggested Hinglish in English mode | Yap