[archon1410]

And of course it's available even in Icelandic, spoken by ~300k people, but not a single Indian language, spoken by hundreds of millions.

भारत दुर्दशा न देखी जाई...

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It leads nowhere interesting or good.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615783.

[sebzim4500]

Presumably almost all competitors from India would be fluent in English (given it is the second most spoken language there)? I guess the same is true of Icelandic though.

[archon1410]

Yes, and there's also languages of ex-USSR countries, whose competitors presumably all understand Russian, and so on.

The real reason might be that there's an enormous class of self-loathing elites in India who actively despise the possibility of any Indian language being represented in higher education. This obviously stunts the possibility of them being used in international competitions.