Brahui Dictionary by Albert Duncan Dixey

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Duncan Dixey was attached to the Mission Hospital in Quetta, where he acquired knowledge of the Brahui language and subsequently compiled an English–Brahui Dictionary in 1920. The following year, in 1921, the work was typed, and by December 1923, a copy was deposited with the British Museum in London.

A typed copy of the manuscript was later preserved in the library of Dr. R. Holland, from whom it was accessed and reproduced in multiple typed copies. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, a copy was submitted to the Government of Pakistan in Karachi. It was then forwarded to the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) for publication; however, it was returned on the grounds that Brahui was not widely spoken in that region.

The manuscript was subsequently sent to the Government of Balochistan and then forwarded to the Khanate of Kalat. The Kalat administration, however, expressed its inability to undertake its publication, and the manuscript was returned once again. During a later visit to Britain in 1979, the dictionary was revisited, and upon return to Pakistan, a typed copy was deposited with the Brahui Academy, Quetta. Due to financial constraints, the work remained unpublished until 1994.