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Girl power puts Gujarati lexicon at your fingertips by Ashish Vashi | TNN Ahmedabad: If the online Gujarati lexicon has proved to be a boon for translators or writers, a bunch of five 20-something girls ought to take the credit. Their love for their mother tongue is phenomenal and so is their passion for language. Hence, with the help of technology they have made words available at fingertips for Gujaratis. Sumaiya Vohra, Padma Javad, Maitri Shah, Shruti Amin and Deval Vyas run an IT firm which handles jobs of researching and compiling Gujarati words. After digitizing ‘Bhagwadgomandal’—a major dictionary of Gujarati—their recent achievement was to put ‘lokkosh’, a Gujarati lexicon, online. It has been accessible to netizens from Tuesday. “Before this company, we were working at different places. We share the same wavelength and passion for Gujarati language. At present, there are various projects in our kitty, including a major one for creating a good spell-check software for Gujarati ...

Lokksoh - Bhasha Ni Asha project is LIVE now! A resource for the people, by the people and of the people. To capture the new words which are globally accepted in Gujarati language day to day life but not exist in Gujarati dictionaries like Sarth, Bruhad and Bhagwadgomandal . People participation is must as " Lokkosh " project is for Gujarati Language Lovers. Courtesy: Lokkosh - Powered by GujaratiLexicon Do visit once!