Jorhat, Nov. 8: The second edition of the Assamese national dictionary compiled under the Asomiya Jatiya Abhidhan Prakalpa by Asomiya Jatiya Prakash is all ready to be released in December.

This was disclosed by the chief editor of the dictionary, Devabrata Sharma, at a function held to felicitate litterateur Dimbeswar Dayal Sharma on his 86th birthday on the Asomiya Jatiya Prakash office complex.

The foundation stone of a three-storey building complex, from which subsequent editions of the dictionary will be published, was also laid.

The complex, which will house the editorial and computer rooms on the ground floor, four guest rooms for linguists and lexicographers on the first floor and an auditorium on the second floor, is estimated to cost Rs 3,27,6000.

The Asomiya Jatiya Abhidan, the first monolingual lexicon in Assamese will be brought out in four volumes and will contain two lakh words, more than four times the number of words found in the largest extant Assamese dictionary, Hem Koch Abhidaan.

The first volume of Asomiya Jatiya Abhidhan was published on January this year and the fourth should be completed by 2012.

“We have incorporated many words from Darrang, Goalpara and Kamrup districts which had been hitherto excluded from Assamese dictionaries,” Sharma said.

The dictionary has put in the innumerable surnames and linked them to each of the communities to which they belong in Assam. It also contains words like mobile, mouse and train which are common usage in Assamese but are still not considered as Assamese words in other dictionaries.