# Language news, Monday, 12 October 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's language news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/language-news/2026-10-12/

## DeepZang Tibetan language model to add dialects, offline use and live interpreting

Tech. A private Tibetan speech and translation model is moving into hospitals, tourist counters and pastoral areas, with a 50-device interpreting pilot in Lhasa in December.

Source: Sixth Tone, https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1019100

## IIIT Manipur launches Ishaan app for Manipuri, Bodo and northeast languages

Tech. Public, home-built machine translation for northeast Indian languages that global tools serve poorly, developed by six institutions under BHASHINI.

Source: Imphal Times, https://www.imphaltimes.com/news/iiit-manipur-launches-ai-powered-language-translation-app-ishaan/