Hi! This is Azad, CEO, Aazaad Media Foundation. writing to introduce the "*Hamari Boli Initiative <http://hamariboli.wikia.com/>*", an opensource People-to-People collaboration and Language Planning<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_planning> enterprise aimed at Hindi-Urdu <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi-Urdu> (the erstwhile Hindustani <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language>. Lingua franca of South Asia & 2nd most spoken lanuage in the world) Script, Style, Style, Status & Lexical reform and modernization.
a full-scale Language Planning initiative, HBI's primary objective is to enable --impossible otherwise-- and spur opensource content production in Hindi-Urdu by resolving the 200 year old Devanagari-Nastaliq digraphia. strictly phonetic, the "*Aazaad Standard for Hindi-Urdu<http://hamariboli.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page#The_.22Aazaad_Standard.22> *" categorically rejects the ongoing arabization of Roman Urdu (as in Ramadan instead of Ramzan) debuted Project Wiki <http://hamariboli.wikia.com/> recently with 30k words and a petition to UN and SAARC governments for adoption of Hindi-Urdu as 7th Official Language<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_languages_of_the_United_Nations#Hindustani> in collaboration with Stanford Peace Innovation Lab<http://peace.facebook.com/>. essentially, the approach is global wiki-based opensource collaboration in areas involving Hamari Boli. i.e. literature, education, bollywood, digital corpus, software/web based language tools etc. P2P communication and confidence building will be bonus effects.. Currently in Alpha stage, we're setting up the space and inviting Enthusiasts, Scholars, Academics, Wikians, Bloggers, Developers, Designers, Researchers, Writers, Poets, Students, Professionals, Universities, Institutions, Companies, Foundations and Associations etc for formal/informal collaboration on various activities and projects under the larger Hamari Boli Initiative. We'll be most obliged and honoured if Google could consider supporting and collaborating on HBI and extend a most cordial invitation to grace our Partners' Board.. please take a look and share the word with individuals and organizations you feel will be interested in Indo-Pak Public Diplomacy and Hindi-Urdu opensource dev.. eagerly looking forward... best/[email protected] hamariboli.wikia.com www.HamariBoli.com <http://hamariboli.com/> peace.hamariboli.com https://www.causes.com/causes/789735-recognition-adoption-of-hindi-urdu-as-the-7th-official-un-language/actions/1674172 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hamari-Boli-Hindi-Urdu-Reinvented/143636665673657 हमारी बोली + ہماری بولی -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-translate-general/-/L4ojp5pCSiAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
