Which spelling system does it use?

The Brolikva Latin romanisation used by the source edition — á í ú, ŧ đ ŕ ń, ļ, ş ź ģ. Urdu script and Devanagari are generated from it. Searching works with plain ASCII too, so typing 'tuus' finds 'tús'.

Why does pronunciation sometimes use a different voice?

Urdu text-to-speech is not installed by default on any platform and does not exist at all on Apple devices. The app plays a prepared recording where one exists, and otherwise ranks the voices actually installed on your device and sends each the script it can read — Urdu script, Devanagari for Hindi voices, or an English respelling.

Do my saved words and progress leave my device?

No. The published dictionary is a read-only layer that loads with the page. Only the words you add, the entries you hide, and your practice progress are written to your browser's local storage, and Reset clears those without touching the source data.

How reliable is the link between an example and its headword?

97.1% of the 38,861 word tokens in the source texts were linked to a headword, and each link records which rule made it. Links made because the authors' own English gloss agreed with a sense are the strongest; 'suppletive' links, where no spelling rule could reach the form, are the weakest and worth a glance before relying on one.

Brahui language

Brahui Dictionary & Learning App

Search 3,473 Brahui words in English, romanised Brahui, or Urdu script. Read cited example sentences, hear pronunciation, and practise vocabulary in frequency order.

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Entries extracted from Ali & Kobayashi (2024), Brahui Texts, ILCAA Asian and African Lexicon 66, published under CC BY 4.0. Open the dictionary in its own tab.

Purpose-built workflow

Read, hear, and learn Brahui vocabulary from a cited published glossary

3,473 entries
Cited examples
Pronunciation
Spaced-repetition practice

InputSearch in English, Brahui, or Urdu script
RefineBrowse A–Z, filter by word class, or open a study deck
ReviewRead senses, part of speech, and glossed example sentences
FinishHear the word spoken and track what you have learned

Brahui language

What does Brahui Dictionary & Learning App do?

Brahui is a Dravidian language spoken by several million people, mostly in Balochistan, and it is surrounded by Indo-Iranian languages rather than related ones. That isolation is what makes it interesting and also what makes it badly served online: most Brahui word lists you find are short, unsourced, and inconsistent about how the language is spelled.

This dictionary takes a different starting point. Its 3,473 headwords are extracted from the glossary of a published academic edition, and 3,261 of them carry example sentences pulled from that edition's own interlinear texts, each one citing the text and printed page it came from. A further 234 entries — numerals and copula forms the glossary leaves out — bring the total to 3,707.

The lookup, the pronunciation, and the vocabulary decks all read from that same set of entries, so what you study is what you can verify.

Search in English, in romanised Brahui, or in Urdu script — results match across all three.

Every entry shows its senses, part of speech, loanword source, corpus frequency, and glossary page.

Example sentences appear in Brahui script, romanisation, morpheme-by-morpheme gloss, and English translation.

Hear words spoken from 1,000 prepared recordings, with a device voice as the fallback.

Learn decks are ordered by how often each word actually occurs in the source texts, so the most useful words come first.

Practice uses spaced repetition: cards you miss return sooner, cards you know are spaced further apart.

Common use cases

Check what a Brahui word means, how it is spelled in Urdu script, and how it is used in a real sentence.

Build a working vocabulary from the frequency-ordered Core decks rather than from an arbitrary word list.

Look up a form you met in a text and find the headword it belongs to, including irregular and suppletive forms.

Study or teach Brahui with citable entries, since every example names its source text and page.

Step-by-step

How to use this tool

1
Find the word
Search a word in English, romanised Brahui, or Urdu script — or browse the A–Z list.
2
Read the entry
Open an entry to read its senses, part of speech, and cited example sentences.
3
Hear it and practise it
Play the pronunciation, and add the word to a study deck to practise it.

Tips for a better result

Search with plain ASCII if the diacritics are awkward to type — 'tuus' finds 'tús'.
Read the example sentences, not only the gloss: they show which sense is actually used.
Learn the frequency-ordered decks first. The commonest words are the ones you cannot read a sentence without.

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Use these standards and official guides when you need deeper technical detail.

ISO 639-3: brh The registered language code for Brahui, used to tag Brahui text on the page.CC BY 4.0 licence The licence the source glossary is published under, which is what allows this extraction to be redistributed with attribution.

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How the entries were sourced, how the spelling works, and what stays on your device.

From the glossary and 28 interlinear texts of Ali, Liaquat & Masato Kobayashi (2024), Brahui Texts: Glossed and Translated Short Stories and Folktales, Asian and African Lexicon 66, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. It is published under CC BY 4.0, which is what allows the extraction to be redistributed with attribution. Nothing was transliterated or invented.