{"id":34388,"date":"2017-06-17T00:34:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T00:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/06\/17\/malayalam-language-gets-technology-boost\/"},"modified":"2017-06-17T00:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T00:34:36","slug":"malayalam-language-gets-technology-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/17\/malayalam-language-gets-technology-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Malayalam language gets technology boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Thanks to the efforts of the Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Malayalam has got a huge boost with a new app which helps in learning the language through games. TEMU Vice-Chancellor K. Jayakumar told reporters here that this idea was mooted by a varsity student. \u201cFrom then on it was a joint initiative that the app was developed and today we have three games which will help anyone to learn our language. This is also hugely beneficial for those who have learning disability besides autistic children,\u201d said Jayakumar, a former chief secretary of the state.<\/div>\n<div>Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University set up in 2012 conducts courses, including M.Phil and PhD programmes, in Malayalam only.<\/div>\n<div>Jayakumar, the varsity\u2019s first Vice-Chancellor, said that work for the launch of a Malayalam e-dictionary, which will start with 1.30 lakh words, is fast nearing completion.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe are planning to have the launch of the e-dictionary in August. Initially, we planned to bring it in a book form, but then decided against it because it has come to a stage that new and several old words are coming out and hence we felt that if it\u2019s an online one, changes and modifications can be made quickly,\u201d said Jayakumar.<\/div>\n<div>He said the arrangement with the University of T\u00fcbingen in Germany is going on well as professors from the varsity here go there to follow up the work that Hermann Gundert started when he was in Tellichery in Kannur district .<\/div>\n<div>The German missionary, scholar and linguist lived in Kerala from 1838 till 1859, following which he returned to his country.<\/div>\n<div>He compiled a Malayalam grammar book Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam in 1859 and authored several books in Malayalam.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the efforts of the Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Malayalam has got a huge boost with a new app which helps in learning the language through games. TEMU Vice-Chancellor K. Jayakumar told reporters here that this idea was mooted by a varsity student. \u201cFrom then on it was a joint initiative that the app [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}