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Bard can't speak my language Tulu. I teach it some phrases in romanized letter, because the script is yet to be added in Unicode and might take another ten years. So far, only some improvements.
Here's an example:
As you can see, everything about this is so wrong. It also mixes Kannada with Tulu. And none of this is intelligible - it's all gibberish. They're not even the same language.
Bard also sucks at Hindi/Urdu translation. I've asked it to translate "Bheegi Bheegi Raaton Mein", which is a pretty old Bollywood song, but it just fails. And even if it does after carefully crafting the prompt, it fails to capture the beauty of the lyrics in the actual source. I'm not good with French, although I've learnt about it before, so I've not bothered trying.
How can a language work, if it's signs are not in Unicode? That sounds incredibly tedious.
For now, folks are using the Kannada script. But I don't use it, because, let's just say that it is kinda similar to the French-Occitan situation. By the way, here is the developing script that will be added to Unicode soon.
Oh my god y'all are Canadian?? (/s)
Not all languages have scripts, and not all scripts are on Unicode (yet). So in this example Tulu speakers would use either the Kannada or the Latin script, both of which are on Unicode.