ABBY releases electronic dictionaries of former soviet republics

YEREVAN, May 12. / ARKA /. ABBY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies, has released an electronic dictionary of state languages of several former Soviet republics making the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Georgia. 

The dictionary was developed together with the CIS Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation. It includes 27 modern dictionaries, containing a total of 1.1 million entries.

The electronic dictionary is supposed to help CIS member states and Georgia protect their national identity and also strengthen their humanitarian cooperation. ABBY said such projects help strengthen friendship and cooperation between nations, preserve cultural heritage, promote mutual understanding and respect between people of different countries and cultures, according rusarminfo.ru.

"One of the key objectives is to support and strengthen the national languages and national cultures. We hope that this dictionary will become indispensable to anyone who works with the national languages ​​of the CIS and Georgia, or wants to study them,' Anatoly Iksanov, the executive director the CIS Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation, said.

The electronic dictionary is created on the basis of ABBYY Lingvo - one of the most well-known electronic dictionaries in Russia. It includes 11 official languages: Azerbaijani, Armenian, Russian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Moldavian, Tajik, Turkmen, Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian and Georgian.

The company has released 1,000 copies of the dictionary on CDs. One CD allows its installation on 5 separate computers. The e-dictionary will be distributed on a non-commercial basis. -0-