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VakyArth: Evaluating Pragmatic Competence in LLMs across Indic Languages

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

Real-world communication often requires pragmatic reasoning: interpreting meanings implied through context and cultural convention rather than stated literally. Existing pragmatic evaluation remains largely limited to English and high-resource languages, leaving Indic languages unexplored despite their linguistic and cultural diversity. We introduce VakyArth, the first pragmatic benchmark for Indic languages, designed as a diagnostic evaluation covering Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Malayalam. VakyArth evaluates models across five phenomena: deixis, speech acts, implicature, social pragmatics, an

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