On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Ananya Guha <nnyguha@...> wrote:
> Dear Edward,
>
> What about the heterogeinity in our country? By this I mean cultural and
> linguistic pluralism? There are 26 ' recognised ' languages as per the 8th
> schedule of the Constitution, and about 100 more clamouring to be '
> recognised '.We describe them pejoratively as ' bhasa ' or dialects!

Yes, that's why we encourage language communities to join in
localizing Free Software, whether at IndLinux, Ubuntu, or One Laptop
Per Child. We want to see more than 400 languages supported in India.
[See http://www.ethnologue.org/show_country.asp?name=IN for details.]

> Ananya S Guha.

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