A voluntary effort by a group of professionals (linguists, computer scientists, literature, journalism ) from different part of the world to preserve the ethnic languages from the North Eastern part of India has led to the development of the first ever online dictionary of North Eastern languages. Initially started with Assamese, "XOBDO" (which means 'WORD' in Assamese) now supports 20 North Eastern languages and we are looking for more volunteers for all the ethnic languages. Anybody can contribute a word along with its meaning to the online dictionary. It is then put through a discussion process among the members of the Xobdo core team of 25 members who work on it online from different parts of the world. However, our aim is to bring these languages to the fore front of the IT age with more language based applications like Search Engines, Machine Translation system etc.
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