[Lexicog] Online bilingual word lists

[Mike Maxwell]

steve at linguistlist.org wrote:
> I've been searching online for bilingual word lists of major languages but 
> am having no luck. 

If by "bilingual word lists" you mean bilingual dictionaries (most of 
which give glosses, rather than definitions, hence are basically word 
lists with maybe some other information), then there are roughly 1 1/2 
bazillion of these on-line.  I would suggest starting with places that 
catalog dictionaries, e.g.

   http://www.worldlanguage.com/ProductTypes/Dictionary.htm
   http://www.dictionarium.com/
   http://www.lai.com/glossaries.html
   http://www.wordgumbo.com/index.htm
   http://www.yourdictionary.com/
etc. (there are lots more catalogs--try LinguistList, OLAC, Rosetta, 
Wiktionary, or links from the particular language names at Wikipedia, 
the Yahoo language catalog, UCLA Language Materials,...)

Some of the above sites are more or less commercial, and some may have 
disappeared.

If after this you still need dictionaries in some languages, you could 
try posting here, but also at language-specific mailing lists or 
websites.  There are "major" languages without on-line dictionaries, but 
they're becoming a rarity.  (Tigrinya is one exception to this 
generalization, at least the last time I looked.  And of course there 
are unwritten languages with large populations, like ASL or spoken 
varieties of Arabic.)

And as a last resort, try searching for words in the languages you want 
(these are more likely to lead to texts than to dictionaries, though), 
or for the language names (using e.g. the Ethnologue as a source of 
alternative names) + "lexicon OR dictionary OR glossary".

    Mike Maxwell
    CASL/ U of Maryland


 
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