Fascinated by Kannada words but fumble when it comes to their English translation? Here's something that will come in handy. According to Krishna, the Kittel dictionary has 60,000 words. "The new ...

BASAVANAGUDI: Kannada is the 30th most widely spoken language in the world, and is growing in the age of computers and the Internet, celebrated lexicographer Prof G Venkatasubbaiah has said.

Nearly 120 years after the publication of Ferdinand Kittel’s Kannada-English dictionary, a similar, but a more comprehensive one, is being brought out. While Kittel’s dictionary has over 60,000 words, ...

With more than 52,000 translations and one word equivalents in simple Kannada, Oxford University Press (OUP) has released the English-English-Kannada dictionary. 'We are delighted to come out with our ...

Every once in a while, a debate about giving up certain derogatory terms or words in Kannada takes new life. Enlightened intellectuals argue that terms like ‘soole’, (prostitute) ‘banje’, (barren) ...