Beary-Kannada-English dictionary will now be a reality

Bhatkallys News |  January 7, 2017 MANGALORE,  Jan 6: One of the  ambitious projects of the  Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy, the Beary- Kannada- English dictionary  will soon become a reality as the entire material  is ready and will be sent to the press next week.  The dictionary will contain at least 20,000 Beary words that will be explained in both Kannada and English. The academy hopes that the dictionary will serve as a linguistic bedrock for the language that is spoken by 15 lakh people across South coastal Karnataka and  Kasargod. Academy President B. A. Mohammed Hanif  is the chief editor of the dictionary and the team comprises B M Ichlangod as editor, Abdul Rehaman Kuttatur and Shamshuddin Madikeri as assistant editors. Prof Surendra Rao, retired professor of History at Mangalore University, is helping in the English translation. The advisory board has experts like Prof B A Vivek Rai and Prof A V Navada. "The dictionary will give a boost to the language. In fact, the computer language included in the dictionary will give a boost to Beary language. The computer language in the dictionary will help people from across the world to read the words and understand its meaning,” Hanif said. The Beary  language is close to Malayalam and with Kannada and Tulu in grammar and phonology. It has no script. The project was launched in November 2014.