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Relative Efficiencies of Indian Languages

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    B. S. RAMAKRISHNA, K. K. NAIR, V. N. CHIPLUNKAR, B. S. ATAL, V. RAMACHANDRAN & R. SUBRAMANIAN

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RAMAKRISHNA, B., NAIR, K., CHIPLUNKAR, V. et al. Relative Efficiencies of Indian Languages. Nature 189, 614–617 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189614a0

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