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KANNADA ENGLISH DICTIONARY

(Kannada is a Dravidian language spoken mainly in Karnataka in southwestern India.)

by Rev. F. Kittel (1832-1903)

Mangalore, Basel Mission Book & Tract Depository; 1894

First Edition

Size 7.5 by 10.5"

hard bound

1752 pages

Very good condition
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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.
He also composed numerous Kannada poems.

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