The upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver to be broadcast in 22 languages will include languages spoken all over South Asia. The sports commentary and play-by-play analysis will be delivered in a wide range of tongues that include Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Punjabi besides English and other languages.

Keith Pelley, president of the broadcast consortium in charge of the coverage, said "These languages are certainly representative of Canada's multicultural diversity and we're pretty excited about being able to deliver such comprehensive coverage."

Multilingual commentators and analysts will be drawn from a consortium of media outlets that include the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Asian Television Network and OMNI Television.

ATN, billed as Canada's largest South Asian broadcaster, will cover the Games across seven specialty channels and in six languages spoken all over South Asia and predominantly in India including Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Urdu.