ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday, terming Urdu dictionary the biggest treasure of Pakistan’s literary history, said its digitalisation had preserved a thousand-year-old culture and tradition of the land. President Mamnoon said languages are the source of identity for literature and culture and expressed satisfaction that digitalisation of Urdu dictionary would help the new generation get a detailed know-how about the language. He lauded Advisor to Prime Minister on National History and Literary Heritage Irfan Siddiqui, under whose patronage Editor-in-chief of Urdu Dictionary Board Aqeel Abbas Jaffery accomplished the strenuous project of digitalisation of 22 editions of the dictionary. Mamnoon further said that maintaining a dictionary is not only an academic activity but a technical matter as well. He also said that the work on the recording of first ‘Digital Urdu Sound Dictionary’ was in progress, which would offer proper pronunciation of 264,000 words.

Source: Pakistan Today January 24, 2018 17:48 UTC