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A full 126 years after the publication of German missionary Ferdinand Kittel's complete Kannada-English dictionary, a comparable, however, a more thorough one is out. While Kittel's dictionary has around 60,000 words, the Kannada-English dictionary incorporated by V Krishna, a lexicographer situated in Bengaluru, has about 1.6 lakh words. Alar, as the new dictionary is called, is an authoritative dictionary with 2.4 lakh English definitions, and is the biggest, most authoritative open-source dictionary in the world, as per Zerodha, a brokerage firm which has teamed up with Krishna. Alar methods bloom in Kannada. In 2018, the Zerodha team talked about the thought with Krishna and granted him an award. Kailash Nadh, chief technology officer of Zerodha, says, “I have been running Ol...