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[edit] historical account of bilingual dictionaries
Sure would be nice to have an historical account of bilingual dictionaries.
When do they start?
e.g.: I'm pretty sure Cicero does not have a bilingual Greek-Latin dictionary ready to hand when he is translating Greek for his Academica, de Finibus, and other philosophical works (or his translations of Plato and Aratus).
The Alexandrian librarians in the 200's B.C. are compiling glossaries for hard words in Homer, but: a) that's not a pure case of bilingualism, and b) the results were not ordered alphabetically, but by order of occurrence (more like footnotes).
Conversely, John Florio's 1598 "World of Words" is a straightforward bilingual dictionary: Italian-English, alphabetical order.
Somewhere between Cicero and Florio?
(Also--there are lots of non-european languages to remember. Whenever texts are translated, e.g. Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Chinese or Japanese, one could imagine glossaries being assembled systematically. What about early translations of Gilgamesh, which appeared in Sumerian, Akkadian, and other languages? But this is all uneducated speculation on my part).
- Good ideas, now we just need someone knowledgeable in this area. LinguistAtLarge 03:21, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Website for inclusion
I was wondering if you think my website is good enough for inclusion in the bilingual listing.
The dictionaries I`ve created are word lists translating english into japanese, chinese, dutch, cebuano and bahasa indonesia.
Let me know your thoughts please. Jonathan Sayles
[edit] Google Dictionary?
Don't you think that Google Dictionary should be in the dictionaries list. It has various language pairs:
- English => French
- French => English
- English => German (BETA)
- German => English (BETA)
- English => Italian
- Italian => English
- English => Korean
- Korean => English
- English => Spanish
- Spanish => English
- English => Russian (BETA)
- Russian => English (BETA)
This is a fair share of languages and it does both single words and common (and some more uncommon) phrases.
It can be found at: http://www.google.com/translate_dict
