Brilliant news!! Congratulations to the Malayalam Wikimedia community for their excellent efforts.
Best, Vishnu On 18 September 2013 09:43, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucher...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > Some of you would have already heard about the recent partnership > between Malayalam Wikipedians & German University of Tubingen to digitize > the works of Herman Gundert. > > Dr. Hermann Gundert was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as > well as the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann > Hesse. Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha > Vyakaranam (1859), the Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and contributed > to work on Bible translations into Malayalam. He worked primarily at > Tellicherry on the Malabar coast, in Kerala, India. Gundert also > contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronomy. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert > > The corpus of nearly 80 manuscripts, 150 printed works and some palm leaf > manuscripts of the German scholar available with the university runs into > some 42,000 pages. > > A detailed history of this effort can be read here > http://shijualex.in/tubingen-university-gundert-collection/ ( Blog by > Shiju Alex in Malayalam) > > Project Page in Malayalam WikiSource : > > > https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A5%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B2:%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%BB_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B2_%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B6%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%96%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82 > > The project named “Gundert legacy – a digitization project of the > University of Tuebingen” will be started soon. > > Some News Coverage : > > The Hindu : > http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/german-university-gifts-malayalam-the-legacy-of-herman-gundert/article5125550.ece > Times of India : > http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS1JLTy8yMDEzLzA5LzEzI0FyMDAyMDI%3D > New Indian Express : > http://newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/German-University-to-digitise-Malayalam-books/2013/09/11/article1778484.ece > > Kudos to Shiju Alex and the Malayalam Wikipedian/WikiSource Community who > are part of this effort. > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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