A Dictionary of the Bengalee Language - Volume 1 - Carey, William
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The language of Bangladesh, West Bengal and parts of Tripura and Assam, Bengali is the sixth most spoken language in the world. A member of the Indo-Aryan family, with its origins in Sanskrit, it has over 230 million speakers. Published in 1825, this is the first volume of a revised three-part dictionary of Bengali, compiled by the Baptist missionary William Carey (1761-1834) during his time in India. Its purpose was to assist Carey's European students at Fort William College in Calcutta, and he endeavoured to include every simple word used in the language, along with all the compound terms…mehr

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The language of Bangladesh, West Bengal and parts of Tripura and Assam, Bengali is the sixth most spoken language in the world. A member of the Indo-Aryan family, with its origins in Sanskrit, it has over 230 million speakers. Published in 1825, this is the first volume of a revised three-part dictionary of Bengali, compiled by the Baptist missionary William Carey (1761-1834) during his time in India. Its purpose was to assist Carey's European students at Fort William College in Calcutta, and he endeavoured to include every simple word used in the language, along with all the compound terms found in Bengali literature. Containing over 100,000 entries in Bengali script with English translations, and providing etymologies for most words, it remains of great interest to linguists today. Carey's reference works on Marathi and Sanskrit are also reissued in this series.
Autorenporträt
William Carey (1761-1834) was born in Northampton, England and raised in the Church of England. He adopted Baptist views early in life eventually becoming a Baptist pastor. Sailing from England in 1793 as the first commissioned missionary by London's Baptist Missionary Society (the society he inspired and helped create), his long missions tenure in India included itinerant evangelism, church planting, social reform, Bible translation and printing, and the founding of the Serampore University, the first university in India to award degrees.