A Telugu-English Dictionary  (English, Hardcover, Gwynn J. P. L.)

Oxford Telugu-English Dictionary meets the needs of English speakers who cannot speak or write in Telugu.

Summary Of The Book

Oxford Telugu-English Dictionary was published by Oxford University Press in 1991. It enables English speakers to not only speak and write in Telugu, but also experience the joys of modern Telugu poetry and prose. The dictionary is useful to Telugu speakers as well, as English equivalents of Telugu words and phrases are included.

The dictionary, comprising over 28,000 entries, is an outcome of the study of literature, and journalistic, administrative, technical and scientific subjects, undertaken by various authors. Special emphasis has been added towards introducing modern day Telugu words and phrases. While meeting the readers’ language needs and enabling the expansion of vocabulary, Oxford Telugu-English Dictionary also serves to present the language accurately.

About Gwynn J. P. L.

John Peter Lucius Gwynn was a linguist and civil servant. Gwynn has also co-written A Grammar of Modern Telugu. John was born in London in 1916. Following in his father’s footsteps, he entered the Indian Civil Service in 1939. He retired from the ICS in 1968. He studied Classics and Comparative Philology at Dublin University. It was while he served in the Indian Civil Service in the districts of Madras and Andhra Pradesh that he fell in love with the Telugu language and its people. Many international Telugu awards were bestowed upon Gwynn for A Grammar of Modern Telugu. He passed away in 1999 in Kent.