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<title>About V. Krishna's Alar (Kannada-English dictionary)</title>
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<section class="page box">
<h1>About</h1>
<p>
<em>Alar</em> is an authoritative Kannada-English dictionary corpus
created by V. Krishna. It contains over 150,000 Kannada words
with over 240,000 English definitions. It is released
as an open data corpus licensed under
the Open Database License (<a href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/index.html">ODC-ODbL</a>).
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<h3>V. Krishna</h3>
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<img src="/static/vkrishna.png" alt="Photo of V. Krishna" class="photo" style="float: left; max-width: 200px; margin: 0 15px 15px 0; vertical-align: middle;" />
V. Krishna started building his Kannada-English dictionary in the 1970s
as a hobby project. This incredible endeavour spanning four decades
has now evolved into an invaluable contribution to Kannada language.
In addition to authoring the colossal dictionary, he single-handedly digitised
his original manuscripts. In 2019, he open sourced the entire dictionary.
<a href="https://zerodha.tech/blog/alar-the-making-of-an-open-source-dictionary">Read the full story here</a>.
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<p>
He is a resident of Bengaluru and spends his time working on his dictionary
and other Kannada literature projects. He has recently started laying
foundations for a new English-Kannada dictionary. He can be reached at
<a href="mailto:vkrishna1411&#064;yahoo.co.in">vkrishna1411&#064;yahoo.co.in</a>.
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<h3>Data</h3>
<p>
The corpus is available on the <a href="https://github.com/alar-dict">Alar repository</a>.
It is licensed under <a href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/index.html">ODC-ODbL</a>.
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<h3>Website</h3>
<p>
This website is published using <a href="https://github.com/knadh/dictpress">dictpress</a>,
and uses <a href="https://github.com/knadh/knphone">knphone</a>, a Kannada phonetic
indexing algorithm, for search. Search suggestions and transliterations are powered by <a href="https://github.com/varnamproject">Varnam</a>.
The website's source is <a href="https://github.com/alar-dict/alar.ink">available here</a>.
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<p>
Technical feedback can be sent to <a href="mailto:kailash&#064;nadh.in">kailash&#064;nadh.in</a>.
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<p><a href="https://zerodha.com"><img height="18px" src="/static/zerodha-logo.svg"
alt="Zerodha" /></a></p>
<p>In 2019, <a href="https://zerodha.tech/blog/alar-the-making-of-an-open-source-dictionary">Zerodha collaborated</a> with
V. Krishna to open source and publish his dictionary online and
awarded him a grant to support his work.
</p>
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<p><a href="https://indicarchive.org"><img height="72px" src="/static/idaf-logo.svg"
alt="Indic Archive" /></a></p>
<p>Since 2023, Alar is a project under Indic Digital Archive Foundation.</p>
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