Check here for an account of the launch of the Kalam dictionary – what a feat! 48 years on..there’s hope for all of us with dictionaries in the bottom drawer.
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Great story! One small quibble, Kalam is non-Austronesia (Papuan) not Austronesian, as reported in the story. It is an amazing language with very few lexical verbs.