The team behind Shabdakalpa, anchored at the School of Cultural Texts and Records in Jadavpur University, believes that it would be the first historical dictionary for a non-Latin script, tracing the ...

Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. KOLKATA: Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. It ...

Even the school children at the primary school level today would tell us that the very first Bangla grammar and dictionary was written by Father Manoel da Assamção. But why was it so? Why was there no ...

A language spoken by barely 1,600 people living in parts of West Bengal bordering Bhutan is to get a dictionary, thanks to the efforts of a professor at the University of Calcutta. Toto is a ...

According to a press release by OUP, the aim behind the launch of the dictionaries is to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. On the occasion of International Mother Language ...

It is 2022 and we have officially spent too much time at home. Binge-watching has lost its delicious forbidden temptation; everyone has admitted that Dalgona coffee actually tastes really bad; ...

Dhaka, Jan 30 (BDNEWS) – An English to Bengali dictionary is now available on the Internet. One can get the Bengali meanings of 22 thousand English words and their uses logging on to www.ovidhan.org.

Contrary to popular belief, the idea of establishing Bangla Academy predates the language movement. By many accounts, Bangla Academy was the brainchild of Dr Muhammad Shahidullah, the legendary ...