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<h1>About</h1>
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<em>Alar</em> is an authoritative Kannada-English dictionary corpus
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created by V. Krishna. It contains over 150,000 Kannada words
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with over 240,000 English definitions. It is released
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as an open data corpus licensed under
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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;" />
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V. Krishna started building his Kannada-English dictionary in the 1970s
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as a hobby project. This incredible endeavour spanning four decades
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has now evolved into an invaluable contribution to Kannada language.
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In addition to authoring the colossal dictionary, he single-handedly digitised
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his original manuscripts. In 2019, he open sourced the entire dictionary.
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<a href="https://zerodha.tech/blog/alar-the-making-of-an-open-source-dictionary">Read the full story here</a>.
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He is a resident of Bengaluru and spends his time working on his dictionary
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and other Kannada literature projects. He has recently started laying
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foundations for a new English-Kannada dictionary. He can be reached at
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<a href="mailto:vkrishna1411@yahoo.co.in">vkrishna1411@yahoo.co.in</a>.
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<h3>Data</h3>
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The corpus is available on the <a href="https://github.com/alar-dict">Alar repository</a>.
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It is licensed under <a href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/index.html">ODC-ODbL</a>.
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The audio pronunciation <a href="https://github.com/Aditya-ds-1806/Alar-voice-corpus">corpus</a> was generated by Aditya DS using Google TTS AI.
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<h3>Website</h3>
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This website is published using <a href="https://github.com/knadh/dictpress">dictpress</a>,
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and uses <a href="https://github.com/knadh/knphone">knphone</a>, a Kannada phonetic
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indexing algorithm, for search. Search suggestions and transliterations are powered by <a href="https://github.com/varnamproject">Varnam</a>.
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The website's source is <a href="https://github.com/alar-dict/alar.ink">available here</a>.
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Technical feedback can be sent to <a href="mailto:kailash@nadh.in">kailash@nadh.in</a>.
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<p><a href="https://zerodha.com"><img height="18px" src="/static/zerodha-logo.svg"
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alt="Zerodha" /></a></p>
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<p>In 2019, <a href="https://zerodha.tech/blog/alar-the-making-of-an-open-source-dictionary">Zerodha collaborated</a> with
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V. Krishna to open source and publish his dictionary online and
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awarded him a grant to support his work.
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<p><a href="https://indicarchive.org"><img height="72px" src="/static/idaf-logo.svg"
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alt="Indic Archive" /></a></p>
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<p>Since 2023, Alar is a project under Indic Digital Archive Foundation.</p>
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