![]() The first Sanskrit dictionary, the Amarakośa, was written by Amarasimha c. 1st century CE) wrote the oldest surviving Homeric lexicon. 4th century BCE) wrote a pioneering vocabulary Disorderly Words (Ἄτακτοι γλῶσσαι, Átaktoi glôssai) which explained the meanings of rare Homeric and other literary words, words from local dialects, and technical terms. 800 BCE Shizhoupian as a "dictionary", modern scholarship considers it a calligraphic compendium of Chinese characters from Zhou dynasty bronzes. 3rd century BCE Erya, is the earliest surviving monolingual dictionary although some sources cite the c. The early 2nd millennium BCE Urra=hubullu glossary is the canonical Babylonian version of such bilingual Sumerian wordlists. ![]() The oldest known dictionaries were cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian– Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla (modern Syria) and dated to roughly 2300 BCE, the time of the Akkadian Empire.
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