Base-4 fractions in Telugu

Re:Base-4 fractions in Telugu by fractalb on Monday July 03, 2017 @01:16AM (#14685995)

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

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Re:Base-4 fractions in Telugu by 7171u on Monday July 03, 2017 @06:03AM (#14687125)

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

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Re:Base-4 fractions in Telugu by satbyy on Monday July 03, 2017 @07:32AM (#14687470)

And so is the first Kannada-English dictionary by a German, Ferdinand Kittel, in 1894.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel

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Re:Base-4 fractions in Telugu by sremani on Monday July 03, 2017 @03:43PM (#14690851)

As a person whose native language is Telugu, I am forever indebted to this man! His contributions to Telugu go beyond dictionary.

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