Friends from Manipur start crowdfunding campaign to make phone keyboard for typing Tangkhul language
Manipur: A team of seven friends in Manipur has launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a virtual keyboard that will allow typing in Tangkhul language on smartphones. The keyboard will be available on both iOS and Android operating systems.
A Sino-Tibetan language, Tangkhul is mostly spoken by the Tangkhul Naga tribe in the Ukhrul district of Manipur and some other places in the north-east.
The initiative is the brainchild of Nagashangam Jingyo of Halang village in the state, who realized that many young people of the tribe are struggling to write and write in the language today.
To promote and preserve Tangkhul, Jingyo decided to start an initiative called Bhairamtui with six of his friends. Creating smartphone keyboards is part of this initiative.
“We are living in a digital age today where writing is done through most digital platforms, including less use of pen and paper. Our team decided to do a project. It’s about typing on a keyboard. We do not have a separate script for the Tangkhul language and instead use the English alphabet with two additional letters and A̱. But a keyboard has only 26 characters by default… so we decided it would be best to have a keyboard with two extra characters for a smartphone, ”the team told The Print.
To make this keyboard, they have now launched a crowdfunding campaign with a goal of paying Rs 50,000 to pay software developers.
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Friends from Manipur start crowdfunding campaign to make phone keyboard for typing Tangkhul language
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