• UGI USER
  • Apr 19, 2023
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The Language Friendship Bridge

News: The Language Friendship Bridge is a project that the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) has in mind to broaden India’s cultural influence in areas where it has long-standing links.

The project’s goal is to make it possible for India to translate its epics, classics, and modern literature into these languages so that people in both nations can read them.

To improve people-to-people exchanges, the Project will develop a pool of experts in languages spoken in nations including Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, and Indonesia.

Five to ten people will receive training in each of these nations’ official languages.

Ten languages have been chosen by the ICCR as of this point: Kazakh, Uzbek, Bhutanese, Ghoti (spoken in Tibet), Burmese, Khmer (spoken in Cambodia), Thai, Sinhalese, and Bahasa (spoken in both Indonesia and Malaysia).

Even while many colleges and universities offer courses in these languages, only a small number of institutions actually teach any of the 10 languages on the ICCR list.