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Tuttle (Periplus/ Java Books) has recently published Father Norbert Shadeg's Balinese-English Dictionary. The dictionary has some quirks (notably the use of initial 'h-' for words, a product of Balinese spelling systems rather than of the way Balinese is spoken), but it is a valuable addition to the field, and the first really comprehensive Balinese-English dictionary (since Kersten's dictionary was narrower in its selection of words).

Also involved in the editing process was Professor Sutjaja, whose only contemporary dictionary is due for publication with the same publisher. The scholarly community owes Eric Oey of Periplus/Tuttle a great debt for publishing the Shadeg dictionary, following the publication of Stuart Robson's Javanese dictionary a few years ago. Few commercial publishers would be prepared to make such a contribution.

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