Sumitra Mangesh Katre (Prof. S. M. Katre) (11 April 1906 – 21 October 1998), a
lexicographer
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* Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
* Theoreti ...
,
Indo Aryan
Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Aryan were the Indo-European pastoralists who migrated from Central Asia into South Asia and intro ...
and
Paninian linguist, was born at
Honnavar
Honnavar is a town in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India.
History
Honnavar is a port town in Coastal Karnataka known for its beautiful landscapes and rich history. The port hosted foreign traders from the Arab world, as well as later ...
, Karnataka and died in
San Jose, California, USA. Katre initiated the gigantic Sanskrit Dictionary Project, ''An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles'', with its 11 million slips preserved in the scriptorium.
His work ''The Formation of Konkani'' is his tribute to his mother tongue
Konkani. S. M. Katre’s 1966 work, ''The Formation of Konkani'', which used the instruments of modern historical and comparative linguistics across six typical Konkani dialects, showed the formation of Konkani to be distinct from that of
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
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* ...
. He was president of the 7th Session of the All India Konkani Parishad held 27–28 April 1957 at Mumbai.
[Souvenir of the All India Konkani Parishad's 28th Session, Goa, 2012]
References
Bibliography
* ''A glossary of grammatical elements and operations in Aṣṭādhyāyī''. Ed. Central Institute of Indian Languages, 1981
* ''Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini''. Ed. Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1989.
* ''Dictionary of Pāṇini: Gaṇapātha''. Ed. Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Poona, 1971
* ''Problems of Reconstruction in Indo-Aryan'', Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, 1968
* ''The Formation of Konkani'', Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Poona, 1966
* ''Some Problems of Historical Linguistics in Indo-Aryan'', Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Poona, 1965
* ''Prakrit Languages and Their Contribution to Indian Culture'', Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Poona, 1964
1906 births
1998 deaths
Indian lexicographers
Indian emigrants to the United States
20th-century Indian linguists
Scientists from Karnataka
People from Uttara Kannada
20th-century lexicographers
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