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posted by chromas on Friday November 15 2019, @04:40PM   Printer-friendly
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Global Voices has an interview with Ranjana Chopra, head of a special department in the state government of Odisha, India. The state of Odisha, India, has published dictionaries in the state's 21 indigenous languages under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License [CC BY]. These are tri-lingual dictionaries which translate to and from the selected indigenous language and English and the local official langage, Odia. Some of the languages are spoken by as few as 8,000 people in the state.

In 2018, the government of the Indian state of Odisha published 21 dictionaries in the state's 21 provincial indigenous languages. The dictionaries were developed in collaboration with native-speaking communities for planned implementation in multilingual primary education programs. The trilingual dictionaries, with indigenous language translations into English and Odia (the official language of Odisha), have been uploaded in August 2019 for public use in an online education portal managed by the government.

On October 17, all the dictionaries were relicensed by online education portal Odisha Virtual Academy under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Earlier on SN:
850 New Words in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2018)


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by gawdonblue on Friday November 15 2019, @09:33PM (1 child)

    by gawdonblue (412) on Friday November 15 2019, @09:33PM (#920811)

    Would be great if all indigenous languages were given similar treatment.

    Related- Many schools in Australia are beginning to have classes in the local tongue and it's working to bring communities together.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 15 2019, @10:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 15 2019, @10:35PM (#920822)

    Incidentally, this state contains significant area of so-called "tribal" settlement - hill peoples who have not been assimilated into Hindu caste system. Adding their languages to the dictionary would be a remarkable feat.