We have managed to compile a dictionary of elementary-level Bali-Indonesia learners

Jakarta The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology through the Bali Language Agency has been compiling a dictionary for Balinese language learners, an official said.

“The scope of words compilation of the Bali-Indonesia learner dictionary is the Balinese vocabulary from school level,” Head of the Bali Language Agency Toha Machsum  in a written statement received here on Saturday.

According to him, Balinese words have been collected from Balinese teaching books from the elementary, junior high, and high school levels.

In addition, words have been collected from children’s stories and Balinese short stories, he informed.

The dictionary is aimed at helping language learners, either when they want to understand speech or text (receptive aspects), or to express thoughts in the form of speech or writing (productive aspects), Machsum said. Both aspects were considered in organizing the learner dictionary, he highlighted.

Source: Antara News