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 ...

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 ...

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 (OUP), part of the University of Oxford, has introduced two significant dictionaries catering to linguistic diversity in India. Firstly, they have launched a bilingual ...

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.

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 ...

The government has taken extensive measures to modernize the use of the Bangla language in the digital sphere. As part of a string of initiatives to facilitate the use of Bangla on digital platforms ...

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 ...