Xobdo.org is the first online Assamese dictionary to become available online on 10 March 2006. As of 6 August 2011 the database of this dictionary contains 37013 words of Assamese language. This is a

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, where anybody can contribute and edit words in the dictionary provided they have a substantial knowledge of the Assamese language. Moreover, the dictionary has the facility to categorize the words as per their origin, nature and locality. It also has the facility of incorporating encyclopedic entries. This

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option to Unicode (UTF-8). The dictionary is the brainchild of Bikram M Baruah, an Assamese petroleum engineer based in

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. Later many interested people specialized in different areas joined as the working force behind this dictionary. In 2007 xobdo.org added multiple interfaces to include 17 more languages spoken in the

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Khasi Khasi may refer to: * Khasi people, an ethnic group of Meghalaya, India * Khasi language, a major Austroasiatic language spoken in Meghalaya, India * Khāṣi language, an Indo-Aryan language of Jammu and Kashmir, India See also * Khasi Hills * Gh ...

, Dimasa,

Bodo Bodo may refer to: Ethnicity * Boro people, an ethno-linguistic group mainly from Northwest Assam, India * Bodo-Kachari people, an umbrella group from Nepal, India and Bangladesh that includes the Bodo people Culture and language * Boro cu ...

, Karbi, Nagamese,

Garo Garo may refer to: People and languages * Garo people, a tribal people in India ** Garo language, the language spoken by the Garo tribe Places * Kingdom of Garo, a former kingdom in southern Ethiopia * Garo, Colorado * Garo Hills, part of the Ga ...

, Ao, Mizo, Mishing, Tanii (Apatani),

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, Meitei-lon, Bishnupriya, Chakma, Kok-Borok, Kuki, and Tanchangya aimed at giving a multilingual edge to the dictionary. Currently XOBDO gives a platform for 27 languages of North-East India, along with English. However, the database for these languages is still substantially small.

Authorship and management

A group of volunteers are responsible for adding words at XOBDO database. As of now the website has two levels of volunteers: "contributors" and "editors". A contributor enters an

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

and its corresponding Assamese word to the temporary database. Afterwards an editor assigns a unique "idea ID" to the corresponding English and Assamese words and carries on other editing works, if required, to match the standards of XOBDO. After assigning the idea ID the words are added to the main database ready to be retrieved by a user.

Technical details

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External links

XOBDO: An Online Assamese Dictionary

Learn Assamese

Xophur Xobolikoron Achoni

XOBDO.ORG Workshops: A series of workshops on Assamese Typing in Unicode

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