Mangaluru : Pradeep Kumar Kalkura President of district Kannada Sahitya Parishad formally launched the first Beary dictionary consists in Beary-Kannada-English language here on Wednesday Nov 12.

Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy published the first Beary dictionary under the editorship of Professor B M Ichlumgodu.

Kalkura said, the dictionary is useful for understand Beary words to other people. The Academy took extreme steps to promote Beary culture”. He congratulated all the members of the Academy for publishing the book.

The dictionary, which will contain at least 30,000 Beary words that will be explained in both Kannada and English, is expected to take nearly a year to compile and publish, said B.A. Mohammad Hanif, President of the Academy here.

The Academy hoped that the dictionary would serve as a linguistic tool for the language that is spoken by 15 lakh people across South coastal Karnataka and the Middle East.