Initial word count: ~51,000.
Current word count: ~800,000.
Target: world’s biggest dictionary by 2029.
Includes words from at least six other Indian languages.
Government trains over 500,000 officials to use Hindi and other languages.
Engineering entrance exam and medical entrance exam are now offered in 13 languages.
A computer platform called Kanthasth version two uses artificial intelligence to store millions of sentences.
Words from many Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali and Odia have been added.
The government hopes it will be the largest dictionary in the world by 2029.
Officials say learning your mother tongue helps you think better, and they encourage learning another Indian language too.
New computer tools using artificial intelligence help collect sentences and translate between languages.
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