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  1. Ferdinand Kittel (7 April 1832 – 18 December 1903) was a Lutheran priest and indologist with the Basel Mission in south India and worked in Mangalore, Madikeri and Dharwad in Karnataka. He is most famous for his studies of the Kannada language and for producing a Kannada-English dictionary of about 70,000 words in 1894. [1] .

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    V. Krishna started building his Kannada-English dictionary in the 1970s as a hobby project. This incredible endeavour spanning four decades has now evolved into an invaluable contribution to Kannada language. In addition to authoring the colossal dictionary, he single-handedly digitised his original manuscripts. In 2019, he open sourced the entire ...

    The entire corpus (© V. Krishna) is available on the Alar repository. It is licensed under ODC-ODbL.

    This website is published using dictmaker, and uses knphone, a Kannada phonetic indexing algorithm, for search. Search suggestions and transliterations are powered by Varnam. The website's source is available here. Technical feedback can be sent to kailash@nadh.in.

  2. Jun 4, 2023 · On this day in 1894, Germany’s Tübingen University awarded Ferdinand Kittel an honorary doctorate for his work on the Kannada language. In this detailed essay, Dr Padmanabha Kekunnaya tells how Kittel, born in a small town in Germany, came to create his celebrated ‘Kannada-English Dictionary’ and became one of modern history’s greatest Kannadigas.

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  3. Oct 23, 2014 · A Kannaḍa-English Dictionary by Reverend Ferdinand Kittel. Published in Mangalore by the Basel Mission Book & Tract Depository, 1894. Scanned by Google from the University of Minnesotta (http://books.google.com/books?id=SeQ2AQAAMAAJ)

  4. Oct 8, 2020 · A full 126 years after the publication of German missionary Ferdinand Kittel’s definitive Kannada-English dictionary, a similar, but a more comprehensive one, is out.

  5. Nov 1, 2019 · He is Ferdinand, known for his work Kittel Nighantu, a comprehensive Kannada-to-English dictionary considered a versatile and authentic source of knowledge to this day.

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  7. Oct 10, 2017 · From the late 1990s onward, a Kannada-English-Japanese electronic dictionary has been in the works, with Professor Jun Takashima (one of the editors of the Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary), Dr. Uchida, and Dr. Rajapurohit being the core members of this project.