Xobdo.org is the first online
Assamese
Assamese may refer to:
* Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India
* People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam
* Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...
dictionary to become available online on 10 March 2006. As of 6 August 2011 the database of this dictionary contains 37013 words of Assamese language. This is a
wiki
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, where anybody can contribute and edit words in the dictionary provided they have a substantial knowledge of the Assamese language. Moreover, the dictionary has the facility to categorize the words as per their origin, nature and locality. It also has the facility of incorporating encyclopedic entries. This
website
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uses
UNICODE
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fonts which ensures global visibility of Assamese fonts when users set their
character encoding
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option to
Unicode (UTF-8).
The dictionary is the brainchild of Bikram M Baruah, an
Assamese
Assamese may refer to:
* Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India
* People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam
* Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...
petroleum engineer based in
Abu Dhabi. Later many interested people specialized in different areas joined as the working force behind this dictionary.
In 2007 xobdo.org added multiple interfaces to include 17 more languages spoken in the
North East India
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Khasi
Khasi may refer to:
* Khasi people, an ethnic group of Meghalaya, India
* Khasi language, a major Austroasiatic language spoken in Meghalaya, India
* Khāṣi language, an Indo-Aryan language of Jammu and Kashmir, India
See also
* Khasi Hills
* G ...
,
Dimasa,
Bodo Bodo may refer to:
Ethnicity
* Boro people, an ethno-linguistic group mainly from Northwest Assam, India
* Bodo-Kachari people, an umbrella group from Nepal, India and Bangladesh that includes the Bodo people
Culture and language
* Boro cu ...
,
Karbi
Karbi may refer to:
Places
* Karbi, Armenia
* Karbi Anglong Plateau, an extension of the Indian Plate in Assam, India
* Karbi Anglong district, a district of Assam, north-eastern India
Other uses
* Karbi people, an ethnic group of North-east ...
,
Nagamese,
Garo
Garo may refer to:
People and languages
* Garo people, a tribal people in India
** Garo language, the language spoken by the Garo tribe
Places
* Kingdom of Garo, a former kingdom in southern Ethiopia
* Garo, Colorado
* Garo Hills, part of the ...
,
Ao,
Mizo Mizo may refer to:
*Mizo people, an ethnic group native to north-eastern India, western Myanmar (Burma) and eastern Bangladesh
*Mizo language, a language spoken by the Mizo people
*Mizoram, a state in Northeast India
*Lusei people, an ethnic group ...
,
Mishing,
Tanii (Apatani),
Monpa
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,
Meitei-lon
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,
Bishnupriya
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,
Chakma
Chakma may refer to:
*Chakma people, a Tibeto-Burman people of Bangladesh and Northeast India
*Chakma language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
**Chakma script
***Chakma (Unicode block)
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,
Kok-Borok,
Kuki, and
Tanchangya aimed at giving a multilingual edge to the dictionary. Currently XOBDO gives a platform for 27 languages of North-East India, along with English. However, the database for these languages is still substantially small.
Authorship and management
A group of volunteers are responsible for adding words at XOBDO database. As of now the website has two levels of volunteers: "contributors" and "editors". A contributor enters an
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national id ...
and its corresponding Assamese word to the temporary database. Afterwards an editor assigns a unique "idea ID" to the corresponding English and Assamese words and carries on other editing works, if required, to match the standards of XOBDO. After assigning the idea ID the words are added to the main database ready to be retrieved by a user.
Technical details
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ASP
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Places
* Asp, part of Densbüren, Aargau, Switzerland
* Aspe (''Asp'' in Valencian), Alicante, Spain
* Asp Lake, a lake in Minnesota
Animals
* Asp (fish)
* Asp (snake), in antiquity, one of several venomous snakes
** ''Cera ...
s on
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IIS
IIS may refer to:
Organizations
* Indian Information Service, of the Government of India
* Institute of Information Scientists, a professional association now merged into the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, UK
* Inst ...
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References
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External links
XOBDO: An Online Assamese DictionaryLearn AssameseXophur Xobolikoron AchoniXOBDO.ORG Workshops: A series of workshops on Assamese Typing in Unicode
XOBDO
Xobdo.org is the first online Assamese dictionary to become available online on 10 March 2006. As of 6 August 2011 the database of this dictionary contains 37013 words of Assamese language. This is a wiki, where anybody can contribute and edit w ...
XOBDO
Xobdo.org is the first online Assamese dictionary to become available online on 10 March 2006. As of 6 August 2011 the database of this dictionary contains 37013 words of Assamese language. This is a wiki, where anybody can contribute and edit w ...
Assamese language
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