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Unearthed 200-yr-old linguistic treasure - Dictionary of Northeast traced to British Library
The Telegraph | Wasim Rahman | Jorhat, Nov. 28
The chief editor of the dictionary project, Devabrata Sharma, today told The Telegraph that the book — Comparative Vocabularies —was a “gold mine of information” for linguist researchers. It contains words in 10 languages, including English, Assamese, Bengali, Manipuri, Garo, Rabha, Koch, Kachari, Panikoch and Mech.
The lexicon was written by Francis Buchanan Hamilton (1762 to 1829), a British polymath of the 18th century. Hamilton came to India when it was under the East India Company.
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