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William Reeve.
Early 19th-century British missionary who compiled the earliest English-Kannada dictionary (1824)
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About William Reeve
William Reeve (1794-1850) was a London Missionary Society missionary to India, author of an early dictionary of the Kannada language, and translator with John Hands of the Bible into Kannada. The dictionary was compiled from 1827 to 1834, when he was in Bangalore. His connection with the Society ceased 23 November 1835.
Everything about William Reeve →- Occupation
- translator, Bible translator, linguist, missionary
- Born
- 1794
- Died
- 1850