Malaysia Airlines (MAS) have announced that their customers can call for updates on flights in Tamil. Malaysia Airlines call centers had previously supported English, Malay and Mandarin languages. It follows a promise by MAS in April of this year when Mandarin was first introduced.
Malaysia has almost 2 million ethnic Indians, most of whom are from the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu and use Tamil as their main communication language. Malaysia operates regular flights to India as well as Sri Lanka and SIngapore, which also have large Tamil-speaking populations. Indians first came to Malaysia as indentured laborers under the British.