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This week we are presenting Dr. Pallavi Singh's lecture.
She graduated in Psychology from Mumbai University and since 2012 she started teaching hindi to foreign students. Thanks to her communicative talent she also took part in two TEDx talks (Delhi in 2015, Pune in 2017).
The title of her lecture is "Class and Caste divisions of Hindi".
The lesson will be held on 8 July at 10:00 (Italy time) through the Zoom platform (13:30 Indian time).

We hope many of you will join!
Vi aspettiamo con gioia! 😀

Hi everyone 😀
We apologize for the inconvenience but the lecture of today with Dr. Pallavi Singh is postponed to 1 p.m Italy time (4:30 p.m Indian time). We hope to see many of you!
Sorry again,
Hindi Club in Italy 🙏🏻

Here is the link for the access:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82781274994...
Meeting ID: 827 8127 4994
Passcode: 131094

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Pallavi on teaching Hindi, breaking the language barriers and bringing inclusivity for expats in India - Small, Big Wins. I would love to see a performer or an artist who is only performing in their own regional language and yet be a globally acclaimed star. This will help break the stereotype of one language being better than the other.

How often does Artificial Intelligence confuse Indian Languages with each other?

How to read this graph?
Take a language in the left axis - take Hindi for example. Look at the row - the largest circles appear in Urdu, Marathi, and Bangla - so this means

"Hindi is confused by the AI to sound like Marathi, Urdu, and Bengali"

Bigger, darker circles = more confusion of Language A as Language B.

Note, Tamizh is often confused with Malayalam, and Malayalam is confused with Tamizh - this is explained as both are Dravidian languages and Malayalam was the newest language to split from old Tamizh.

Notice how Malayalam is confused by AI to be Sanskrit but Tamizh isn't.

Malayalam and Sanskrit have been mentioned a number of times in literature. Eighty percent of Malayalam vocabulary is constituted of Sanskrit.

The poor AI also finds it hard to distinguish Gujarati, Hindi, and Marathi - evident because they all come from the Western branches of Vedic Sanskrit - Maharashtri and Shauraseni Prakrit.

Notice that the AI also confuses Kashmiri (Koshur) and English! According to the paper, Kashmiri has intermingled with English being an international tourist destination. Kashmiri people also use English frequently as a second language.

Axomiya, Odia and Bangla all have similarities with each other - all children of Magadhi Prakrit - so they all share a lot of similarities

The similarity between English and Konkani can be attributed to the fact that Konkani is mainly spoken in Goa which has been in contact with foreign land from early period of time either due to colonization or for trade purpose. Besides, Goa is also a tourist place like Kashmir.

Similarity between Odia and Kannada might be due to the fact that Kannada is a Dravidian language and ancient Odisha comprised a large Dravidian speaking region. Though political boundaries of Odisha have shrunk in modern times, Odia has a strong Dravidian influence in it.

Notice that the confusion isn't bi-directional - the pesky AI confuses Telugu for Bangla but it does not confuse Bangla for Telugu.

Some similarities like why Axomiya is confused with Punjabi and why Gujarati is confused with Bangla are a mystery. We don't know why the AI finds these very unrelated languages similar.

Only time will tell.

Link to the paper: https://hindawi.com/journals/aai/2015/325703/

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