Digital Urdu dictionary soon to be launched

Keeping up with daily advancing technology, Pakistan is soon to introduce a digital Urdu dictionary website, an initiative that will also promote the national language.

Irfan Siddiqui, Adviser to Prime Minister of Pakistan on National History and Chairman of Quaid-i-Azam Mazar Management Board, declared that the website will officially be launched by next month on October 15. Not only a dictionary, 5,000 books will also be digitalized.

A meeting was held of Urdu dictionary board that was headed by Mr. Siddiqui after which the announcement was made about the Pakistani government launching the website in order to encourage Urdu language along with making people understand Urdu in a more effective way, wrote CNN.

He informed that the idea of digitalizing the Urdu dictionary was being worked on for quite a while now. While giving details about the dictionary, Mr. Siddiqui informed that the website will contain 22,000 pages with 264,000 words. Furthermore, the dictionary will be a sound dictionary and will allow users to hear the word too so that they won’t have any difficulty in pronouncing the words.

Though the project is almost done, some errors were detected that would be rectified by the official launch date of the dictionary, as per Tech Juice.