भाषा शाला

bhāṣā śālā

language house

An etymologically-informed reader for Indian language texts. Word-level transliteration, translation, and etymological connections across hundreds of Indic languages.

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Word-by-Word Analysis

Transliteration, translation, and grammar for every word. Hover any word to see its full breakdown with sources from multiple dictionaries.

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Etymology Trees

Trace word origins across Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Munda language families. Built on Jambu, CDIAL, DEDR, and Wiktionary data.

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Multiple Scripts

Support for Gujarati, Devanagari, and more Indic scripts with both rule-based and AI-assisted transliteration.

Built on Open Linguistic Data

Wiktionary 16 Indian languages Jambu / CDIAL / DEDR 290K forms across 615 languages Monier-Williams 160K+ Sanskrit entries

How Bhāṣā Śālā Uses These Sources

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OCR

PDFs are processed with Gemini 2.5 Flash to extract text and word bounding boxes

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Dictionary Lookup

Each word is looked up across Wiktionary (16 languages), Jambu/CDIAL (290K forms), and Monier-Williams (160K entries)

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Disambiguation

An LLM (Llama 3.3 70B via Groq) selects the best sense for each word in context

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Etymology Trees

Cross-linguistic cognate data spanning hundreds of Indic languages is assembled into interactive etymology visualizations