A New Hindustani-English dictionary, with illustrations from Hindustani literature and folk-lore / S.W. Fallon. 1879

26.5 x 6.0 cm (book measurement (inventory)) | RCIN 1071766

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S. W. Fallon was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1817 and joined the Bengal education department at the age of 20. After his retirement in 1875 he published this, one of the first Hindustani-English dictionaries, in which he recorded Urdu words and phrases ignored by other lexicographers including proverbs, idioms, superstitions, songs, riddles, cultural nuances, regional pronunciations and folklore.
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26.5 x 6.0 cm (book measurement (inventory))
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Language, Linguistics and Literature
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Indic languages
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Dictionaries. Language dictionaries

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