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Googles inclusion of Kashmiri will facilitate the conversion of all their literature into various languages, making it easily accessible to a global audience.
South Asia is one of the most intensely multilingual regions in the world. It covers over 5 million square kilometres, has a population of approximately 1.9 billion (around 25% of the world’s population), and is home to five families of languages (the Indo-European, Iranian, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic or Munda, and Tibeto-Burman).
“The L-G assured them that to begin with, an Academy for Kashmiri and Dogri languages will be immediately set up and a school on the lines of various schools run by state associations like Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh among others will also be explored,” officials said.
Noted writer poet and Sahitya Academy award winner Ghulam Nabi Khayal passed away recently. Khayal was a prominent figure in Kashmiri literature. He was born in 1945 in Kashmir and went on to become a well-known poet and author. His poetry is deeply rooted in the culture, history, and landscape of Kashmir.
A People s Poet
Khayal was a renowned Kashmiri poet and