Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as second ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- From Libya to Bahrain to Egypt, social media sites like Twitter and Facebook continue to play a substantial role in the political unrest of the region, but its major languages remain ...
Hyderabad: Urdu is a Lashkari (mixed dialect). It is a Persianised standard register of Hindustani language. It has 30 consonants, 20 vowels, two diphthongs; non-tonal; stress being on the penultimate ...
That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...