ज़ुबानेंزبانیں
Zubane
An offline dictionary with 5,000 Hindustani words, plus Devanagari and Nastaliq study, pronunciation, songs, word origins, and an AI tutor.
Language projects
Every language is a bridge.
I am the founder of Zubane, Bhashalu, and Bhashegalu, three apps that follow the words, scripts, and histories connecting Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, and Kannada.
The series
Three apps. Four languages. One idea.
Put scripts side by side, follow where a word came from, and let the history stay visible. Each project turns that method toward a different language pair.
भाषाएँభాషలు
Bhashalu
A paired dictionary with Devanagari and Telugu script study, pronunciation, songs, word origins, and an AI tutor for two unrelated languages that share words.
भाषाएँಭಾಷೆಗಳು
Bhashegalu
A paired field guide to words, scripts, grammar, and the history of language contact across Karnataka and the Deccan.
Why I built them
The words came before the software.
My interest in language runs through family, history, and the cultural anthropology I studied at Penn.
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My grandparents grew up in India before Partition. One grandfather spent his career as a professor of Hindi and Indian languages. The questions behind these apps started there: which words traveled, what changed along the way, and what becomes visible when scripts sit beside each other?
Zubane began with Hindi and Urdu. Bhashalu and Bhashegalu carry the same question across language families, pairing Hindi with Telugu and Kannada. The apps keep their core dictionaries on the device and pair word origins with script study and original writing.