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Another one.

First Malayalam-English( another south Indian Language) dictionary was compiled by a German linguist Hermann Gundert who is the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert

And so is the first Kannada-English dictionary by a German, Ferdinand Kittel, in 1894.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel

As a person whose native language is Telugu, I am forever indebted to this man! His contributions to Telugu go beyond dictionary.