India’s language policy debate — reignited by the National Education Policy’s implementation — reveals deeper tensions between the country’s state and central governments, with southern states ...

'Need innovators, not interpreters': Pradhan bats for Indian languages in education system ...

A BJP poster issued on World Hindi Day on January 10, 2018, quotes Prime Minister Narendra Modi as saying that “Today, the entire world recognizes the power and might of the Hindi language.” Credit: ...

India is incredibly diverse, with over 1,200 languages spoken across the country. Hindi is the most common, spoken by about 44% of people. India is also known for its ancient traditions. Tamil is ...

India's efforts to build large language models (LLMs) for its diverse linguistic landscape are accelerating, driven by community-led data collection, academic research, and government-backed AI ...

India is home to great writing systems such as the Brāhmī and the Kharosthī that date back centuries. It’s also a land where languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada have etched an oral history ...

People around the world speak about 7,100 languages today. Some languages, such as Tamil and Sanskrit, have been around for thousands of years. Others, like Afrikaans, are much newer, appearing only ...