New German-Kyrgyz dictionary presentation in Zhusup Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University

A new German-Kyrgyz dictionary presentation will be held in Zhusup Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University in Bishkek on 26 March. This was informed by Cultural and Public Relations Attaché of the German Embassy in the KR Thomas Arndt.

According to him, the two-volume dictionary created under the guidance of Professor Pamira Kadyrbekova contains around 70,000 words and word combinations.

“I worked over the dictionary in co-authorship with KNU teachers – Venera Molkubatova, Kubat Osmonakunova and Saira Osmonova, - says Pamira Kadyrbekova. – In Soviet times there were pocket German-Kyrgyz dictionaries with 15,000 words, but it was impossible to find them. Our students used German-Russian dictionary under the editorship of Olga Moskalskaya and a dictionary of Elina Leping-Strakhova. The new dictionaries, probably, will be provided for German teaching schools, in German departments of universities and libraries. Total size of edition is 200 copies”.