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more-inAfter bringing out the first Beary-Kannada-English dictionary last year, Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy has now moved to publish two volumes on Beary grammar. According to the president of the academy Karambar Mohammed, it has been planned to publish a volume on the grammar completely in Beary and another with explanations in Kannada and English. The dictionary, with about 20,000 words, released last year has the original Beary word in Kannada script and an English transliteration. In her work ‘Beary Language’, researcher and the late Susheela P.
Upadhyaya mentions that there was a belief that Beary had a script known as ‘Batte Baraha’, which is now not in use. Now Kannada script is being used..