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Non-English

Dictionaries for languages other than English.

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Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka
http://www.dokpro.uio.no/ordboksoek_nynorsk.html
A searchable Norwegian dictionary.
Chinese Character Dictionary (another one)
http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html
Simple dictionary searchable by English meaning, hanyu pinyin (with or without tones), Yale Cantonese reading, radical, or by pasting in a character from a browser or other computer program.
Diccionario CLAVE
http://clave.librosvivos.net/
A searchable Spanish dictionary. In Spanish. Provides etymology and usage examples. Best viewed in Internet Explorer.
Diccionario de la Real Academia Española and Diccionario de Autoridades
http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/
Two dictionaries issued by the official language authority of Spain. The Diccionario de Autoridades was published from 1726-1739 and the latest edition of the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (or Diccionario "usual") was published in 1992. Both dictionaries are fully searchable. Results are displayed on scanned pages of the dictionaries, so surrounding words can also be seen. A useful resource for studying the history of the Spanish language.
Diccionario de Regionalismos de la Lengua Española
http://www.hispanicus.com/drle/
Dictionary of regional Spanish and slang. It includes 30,000 entries from regions of Spain, Latin America, and around the world. The definitions also specify in what regions a particular meaning is used. In Spanish.
French Dictionary (Thresor de la langue française, 1606)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/dicos/TLF-NI...
Searchable version of the 1606 edition of Jean Nicot's Thresor de la Langue Française, a French language dictionary containing over 18,000 entries. From ARTFL Project.
The Greek Alphabet
http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
Greek letters, their names, equivalent English letters, and tips for pronouncing those letters which are pronounced differently from the equivalent English letters; designed as part of a series of lessons on Koine (New Testament Greek).
The Internet Living Swahili Dictionaries
http://www.kamusiproject.org/en/dictionaries
Browse or search three dictionaries: English-Swahili, Swahili-English, and Russian-Swahili. This project, sponsored by an international organization for linguistic research and community service, also offers specialized Swahili vocabulary lists and downloadable text files of the dictionaries.
Sakha Open World - Yakut (Sakha) Pronunciation Guide
http://sakhaopenworld.org/library/yakut_pronunciation.html
This site is a pronunciation guide to the Sakha language (also called the Yakut language) of northeastern Siberia (the Sakha Republic) in northeastern Russia. It includes English translations of some words, and offers a link to read and listen to Yakut proverbs. You can also link here to a Sakut (Yakut) discussion forum.
Tomisimo Spanish English Dictionary
http://www.tomisimo.org/
Spanish to English to Spanish Dictionary. Allows wildcards and sorts results by relevancy.

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