Project ELLORA

Context: Research

Joint Parliamentary Committee

ers at the Microsoft Research (MSR) lab in India have been working towards creating Project ELLORA.

About Project ELLORA:

• The project aims to bring ‘rare’ Indian languages online.
• It is also known as Enabling Low Resource Languages that was launched in 2015.
• It is a digital resource for Indian languages that do not have enough presence online.
• Some of the languages that’s its researching includes: Gondi, Mundari, and Idu Mishmi.

Gondi:

• It is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken by Gond tribes.
• It is spoken in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
• It is written in Devanagari and Telugu scripts.

Mundari:

• It belongs to Austroasiatic language family spoken by the Munda tribes.
• It is spoken in Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal.
• Scripts: Mundari bani.
• It is written in the Devanagari, Odia, Bengali, and Latin writing systems.

Idu Mishmi:

• It is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh and in Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
• It uses the Tibetan script and Idu Azobra script.
• It is also known as Sulikata, Midu, Mindri and Mithu.

Source: Indian Express