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Trivia: The first dictionary in Telugu which is still in use is written by an Englishman by name Charles P. Brown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Philli

Trivia: The first dictionary in Telugu which is still in use is written by an Englishman by name Charles P. Brown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Phillip_Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Phillip_Brown

7171u 9y ago
Another one. First Malayalam-English( another south Indian Language) dictionary was compiled by a German linguist Hermann Gundert who is the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert
satbyy 9y ago
And so is the first Kannada-English dictionary by a German, Ferdinand Kittel, in 1894. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel
sremani 9y ago
As a person whose native language is Telugu, I am forever indebted to this man! His contributions to Telugu go beyond dictionary.