Kashmir University launches first trilingual dictionary
Posted by Jaiken Struck on September 3rd, 2009The Kashmir University has launched the first trilingual English-Kashmiri-Hindi online dictionary ‘Kashmiri Zaban’, containing over 12,000 words.
The diction
ary, compiled by the university’s Department of Linguistics, makes use of three scripts - the Roman script for English, Devangari script for Hindi and Modified Persio-Arabic script for Kashmiri.
“Launch of the dictionary was a historic moment for the varsity. The dictionary will be of great use to people, especially the non-Kashmiris for whom we are launching a course named Kashmiri for non-Kashmiri soon”, the University’s vice-chancellor Riyaz Punjabi said.
The dictionary was launched during the inaugural function of the 5-day workshop on a Dialect Survey on Kashmiri.
Read more: Press Trust of India
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