Getting India’s languages on-line</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Getting India’s languages on-line"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Getting,India’s,languages,on-line"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">23-08-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Getting India’s languages on-line</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (SciDev): India has 18 official languages, 1,652 mother tongues (33 of them spoken by over 100,000 people), and dozens of different scripts. Each Indian-language script is different from the other, and can be written in different ways. Some, like Urdu and Sindhi, are written right to left, others from left to right. Others, like Hindi, have extra flourishes that act as vowels or modify pronunciation. <br>Finding solutions for making these native tongues available to computer users is vital to bring communication and information technologies to India's entire population. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.scidev.net/Features/index.cfm?fuseaction=readFeatures&itemid=443&language=1 " target="blank">www.scidev.net/Features/index.cfm?fuseaction=readFeatures&itemid=443&language=1 </a> <br> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show