> Then why is there not more of NLP work/products on Indian languages? There's a market for it, a huge market, isn't it? The market effects of linguistic diver

> Then why is there not more of NLP work/products on Indian languages? There's a market for it, a huge market, isn't it? The market effects of linguistic diversity work both ways: having more languages increases the potential demand for translation tools, but the sheer number of long-tail languages also makes it hard to justify compiling a corpus and making a considerable effort to study each of these languages enough to build tools for them. Some language communities may almost completely lack the kind of highly literate people who would make this task surmountable, and those who could help, may already be working another more stable or higher paying job.