Jorhat, Jan. 28: Asomiya Jatiya Prakash is all set to release the third volume of its four-volume dictionary, Asomiya Jatiya Abhidhan, in Tinsukia tomorrow.
The four-volume dictionary purports to contain all the words spoken in the greater Assamese society and will have more than two lakh words.
Chief editor of the encyclopaedic dictionary Devabrata Sharma said this was the first monolingual lexicon in Assamese which would contain more than four times the number of words found in the largest extant Assamese dictionary, Hem Koch Abhidhan.
The first volume of Asomiya Jatiya Abhidhan was released on January 1, 2010, the second on December 26, 2010 and the fourth should be completed by 2012.
"We have incorporated many words from Darrang, Goalpara and Kamrup districts which had been hitherto excluded from Assamese dictionaries, besides slang words, words pertaining to dresses and festivals which typify a particular community like karam puja, tusu puja and ali ai ligang," Sharma said.
The etymology of each word has been traced and even words used in phrases like deha Golaghotia gol ' meaning a person affected by kala azar is going to Golaghat for treatment at a hospital set up especially for treatment of black fever during the 19th century ' have been incorporated.
The dictionary has also put in innumerable surnames and linked them to each of the communities to which they belong in Assam. It has included words like mobile, mouse and train which are commonly used in Assamese but are still not considered Assamese words in other dictionaries.
The release ceremony will be inaugurated by former vice-chancellor of Gauhati University Amarjyoti Choudhury and the book will be formally released by Bhim Kanta Baruah, a professor of the Assamese department, Dibrugarh University, and an expert in Tai and Assamese languages.
On February 26, a dictionary written by Ruchinath Borgohain in 1810 will also be reprinted and released and the second edition of Nathan Brown's Grammatical Notices of the Assamese Language will also be released. The publishing house had first reprinted this copy in July 2011.
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