What is a multilingual website and how do I build one for Indian languages?

A multilingual website serves content in multiple languages, expanding your audience to vernacular internet users. India has 800 million+ internet users with 60%+ preferring regional language content. For WordPress multilingual: WPML plugin (paid, Rs 7,500/year, most powerful), Polylang (free, good for basic needs), or TranslatePress (free + paid, visual frontend translation). Approach options: 1) Human translation (best quality, most expensive — hire translators for Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Tamil at Rs 1-3/word). 2) Machine translation (Google Translate API, DeepL) — fast and cheap but quality varies. 3) Community/crowdsourced translation. URL structure for multilingual: yourdomain.com/en/, yourdomain.com/hi/, yourdomain.com/as/ with hreflang tags in HTML head for Google to understand language variants. Fonts: add Google Fonts supporting Indian scripts (Noto Serif Bengali, Hind Siliguri for Assamese/Bengali, Tiro Devanagari for Hindi). SEO: each language version gets separately optimized meta tags. Indian language sites rank better for vernacular search queries. Build multilingual site on Connect Quest at connectquest.co.in.