Kannada-English dictionary is now online after 40 years
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,…