{"id":3598,"date":"2023-01-31T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T06:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:10:31","slug":"project-ellora-enabling-low-resource-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/project-ellora-enabling-low-resource-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Project ELLORA (Enabling Low Resource Languages)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft researchers under this project have been working toward creating <strong>digital ecosystems for Indian languages<\/strong> that do not have enough presence online,<\/li>\n<li><strong>The main goal of the Project?<\/strong> To impact underserved communities through enabling language technology by creating economic opportunities, building technological skills, enhancing education and preserving local languages and cultures for future generations.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Research (MSR) has chosen to focus on three languages namely; <strong>Gondi, Mundari and Idu Mishmi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about Gondi, Mundari and Idu Mishmi Language<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Gondi Language<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Language family:<\/strong> Gondi is a South-Central Dravidian language.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Script:<\/strong> The Gondi script is perhaps the only script in the country besides Urdu which is written <strong>right to left.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In northern and central India, it is the only language, barring Gujarati, which has a <strong>script of its own.<\/strong> All other north and central Indian languages use the Devnagri script.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dialects:<\/strong> Gondi, is heavily influenced by the other local languages spoken in the respective states.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This is spoken by close to three million speakers in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mundari Language<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mundari (Mun\u0256ari) is a Munda language of the <strong>Austroasiatic language<\/strong> family spoken by the <strong>Munda tribes<\/strong> in the eastern Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Mundari Bani, a script specifically to write Mundari, was invented by <strong>Rohidas Singh Nag.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Idu Mishmi<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Idu Mishmi language is a small language spoken by the Mishmi people in the Dibang Valley district, of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh speakers in China 1994.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is considered an endangered language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a classical language?<\/h3>\n<p>A classical language is any language with an independent literary tradition and a large and ancient body of written literature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/how-microsofts-project-ellora-is-helping-small-languages-like-gondi-mundari-become-eloquent-for-the-digital-world-8413587\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>How Microsoft\u2019s Project ELLORA is helping small languages like Gondi, Mundari become eloquent for the digital world<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project ELLORA aims to create digital ecosystems for Indian languages that do not have enough presence online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}