Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians. [...] Apart from the languages of the North-East and the state of Odisha, there are several other languages all over India that deserve better representation on the Internet. [...] One of the major reasons that contribute to the lack of resources is the difficulty in human access to some of the areas in these regions. [...] The goal of this program is to facilitate the study of these languages by making existing resources discoverable and building open-source structured datasets and tools using the Wikimedia sphere to enrich the language research landscape of small and underrepresented Indian languages. [...] Wikisource for texts Capacity Building workshops - Promoting the language among the young speakers of the community, since they are the future of the language and if it survives, it will belong to them.
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