DU Undergrads Develop App For Offbeat Languages

BANGALORE: Ever wondered if you could speak in Ladakhi and Mao Naga? The Indic Language application that is being developed by a few enthusiastic students from the Delhi University’s Cluster Innovation Centre will allow you to do so. It is being put together by a group of four undergraduate students including Himanshu Patel, Vivek Shekhar, Leelambar Soren and is lead by Vikalp Kumar.

Vikalp Kumar, 21, developed a liking for languages when he was able to impress his friends by writing their names in different languages. He is basically from Chennai and knows 5 more languages than the usual suspects Tamil, English and Hindi. The other languages that he is proficient in are Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Punjabi and Sarazi –which is spoken in a district of Kashmir. He has an understanding of Sanskrit and Persian as well.

Under the guidance of Sukrita Paul Kumar, Coordinator of BTech in Humanities in DU, the group started by doing spadework and followed it up with a questionnaire. It took half a year for them to accomplish this preparatory work. Sukrita, who was an editor for People's Linguistic Survey of India knew just how big an undertaking this project was. Though this sort of exercise would claim generous funding and involves daunting field visits, the team found ways around both.

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