Njattyela Sreedharan ( ml, ഞാറ്റ്യേല ശ്രീധരൻ; born in 1938
) is a
lexicographer
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* Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
* Theoreti ...
from
Thalassery
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in
Kerala
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. He is known for compiling a dictionary connecting four major
Dravidian languages
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Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...
,
Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...
,
Tamil
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and
Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
.
Selected books
*''Malayalam-Tamil Dictionary (2012)''
*''Chathur Dravida Bhasha Nighandu (Dictionary of Four Dravidian Languages) (2020)''
In Popular culture
The 2021 documentary
Dreaming of Words
''Dreaming of Words'' is a 2021 Indian documentary film directed and produced by Nandan. ''Dreaming of Words'' has received numerous accolades including National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film (2020) awarded to ...
, directed by Indian filmmaker Nandan, celebrates the life and work of Njattyela Sreedharan. ''Dreaming of Words'' has received numerous accolades including a
National Film Award
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and was screened at the annual convention of the
Modern Language Association
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and the annual conference of the
Linguistic Society of America
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in January 2022.
Major awards
*
Dr. Hermann Gundert Award for the best dictionary (2022) instituted by
Dravidian Linguistics Association
The Dravidian Linguistics Association is a learned society of scholars of Dravidian languages, based in Thiruvananthapuram. It holds the annual "Conference of Dravidian Linguists". The president is P.T. Murugaretnam (Madurai Kamaraj University).
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[http://www.ijdl.org/html/DLA%20NEWS%20JUNE%20ISSUE.pdf ]
See also
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Multilingualism
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Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai
Sreekanteswaram G. Padmanabha Pillai (1865–1946), popularly known as ''Sreekanteswaram'', was a lexicographer and scholar best known for his Malayalam dictionary ''Sabdatharavali''.
Life
Padmanabha Pillai was born on 1865Kathakali, the Art o ...
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Hermann Gundert
Hermann Gundert ( Stuttgart, 4 February 1814 – 25 April 1893 in Calw, Germany) was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the maternal grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Gundert is chiefly kno ...
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Dreaming of Words
''Dreaming of Words'' is a 2021 Indian documentary film directed and produced by Nandan. ''Dreaming of Words'' has received numerous accolades including National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film (2020) awarded to ...
References
External links
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20th-century Indian linguists
Indian linguists
Indian lexicographers
Multilingualism