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Assamese Community and Language
Assam is situated at the heart of northeast India spreading an area of 78,438.00 square kilometers, comprising 27 districts. The inhabitants of Assam are a broad racial intermixture of Mongolian, Indo-Burmese, Indo-Iranian and Aryan origin. The hilly tracks of Assam are mostly inhabited by the tribes of Mongolian origin. This broad racial intermixture is the native of the state of Assam, called their language and the people “Asomiya” or “Assamese” which is also the state languag... ...
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Bodo Community and Language
The Bodos (pronounced as bɔ́ɾɔ̀z) are one of the ethnic and linguistic communities and early settlers of Assam in North-East India. The word ‘Bodo’ denotes both the language as well as the community. The Bodos belong to a larger group of ethnicity called the Bodo-Kachari. Racially they belong to Mongloid stock of the Indo-Mongloids or Indo-Tibetans. Mythologically, according to Dr. ... ...
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Corpora
The RCILTS-II (Assamese and Bodo) team had built huge Assamese and Bodo parallel corpora of different domains viz. Generic, Health and Tourism and annotated them using a tagger, Sanchay which is developed and designed in International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. All the corpora are taken from written data of different sources. As the sources of the G. ... ...
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Dictionary
The RCILTS-II (Assamese and Bodo) team, as one of its tasks, compiled an English-Assamese-Bodo Trilingual Dictionary taking in mind the usability of the lexicons of the Assamese and Bodo languages in machine translation and other computational work. Every entry is provided with four fields viz. “English” (Source Language), “Grammatical Category”, “Assame .... ...
