Kathmandu, Aug. 22 -- Communities and academics in Nepal are stepping up their efforts to put the country's indigenous languages on the digital scene, aided by artificial intelligence that has emerged as an important tool for preserving languages and passing them on to the younger generation.

A major step comes from the Kathmandu University's Information and Language Processing Research Lab, which recently unveiled a trilingual translation system covering Nepali, Tamang and English.

The system, supported by a Google Academic Research Award, was trained on more than 100,000 parallel sentences in Nepali, Tamang and English. Researchers used artificial intelligence and trained Meta AI's NLLB-200 model on datasets in Nepali and Tamang.

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