Instagram now supports right-to-left languages

Instagram just announced a major addition to the app. It has added Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi languages - all of which are read from the right to left. It currently supports 33 languages, all of which are left-to-right languages. Instagram is starting with official country languages to mainly help Android users of the Middle East and North Africa regions.

Instagram isn't the first social media app to add languages that read right to left. Twitter added Arabic and Farsi to its mobile website back in 2012. However, Instagram has for quite some time supported languages like Chinese, Korean, and Japanese that can be read both right to left and top to bottom. But this is the first time it is supporting exclusively right-to-left languages.

Users can simply go to their Instagram profile in the app, tap on the gear icon, scroll down and tap Language just below Settings to choose the language they would like to use. On the downside,the language support stops short of translation features. The three languages will be available on the Android version of Instagram first.