CHENNAI: Imagine a Tamil to English dictionary that contains 4.25 lakh words. Karky Research Foundation (KaReFo), which has been working on Tamil computing and language literacy research for the ...

In the history of Tamil dictionaries, A Tamil-English Dictionary has a special place. Published in 1870 and reissued in 1888 by V. Visvanatha Pillai, it is probably the first dictionary compiled ...

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Every dictionary has its own policy when it comes to localisation of words. "You can't use any Tamil word in English, the word must have been used in an English context," he says.