nathan brown compiled and published assamese dictionary in 1867.
who compiled and published assamese dictionary in 1867?
nathan brown
hemkosh is the second dictionary of assamese language. the first assamese dictionary was compiled by dr. miles bronson, an american baptist missionary. his dictionary, published in 1867 at the american baptist mission press, sibsagar, is out of print. bronson’s work did not pretend to be an etymological dictionary but contained a very considerable collection of words from the people themselves without recording derivations.
hemkosh
the third assamese dictionary chandrakanta abhidhan, a comprehensive bilingual dictionary with words and their meanings in assamese and english, originally compiled and published by asam sahitya sabha in 1933, 32 years after the publication of the "hem kosh". the dictionary contains 36,816 words in all. a third edition of this dictionary was also published by the university of guwahati in 1987 duly edited by dr. maheswar neog and dr. upendranath goswami. another assamese dictionary called "adhunik asamiya abhidhan" has been published by assam prakasan parishad in 1977 under the editorship of dr. maheswar neog, rajanikanta deva sarma and nava kanta baruah.
history of assamese literature