From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2007 - 06:20:36 CST
On 23/11/2007, "André Szabolcs Szelp" <a.sz.szelp@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> I've once seen a four-script dictionary: Chinese, Mongolian, Arabic (presumably
> Uighur language) and Tibetan. That dictionary had a unique solution, it had all
> the scripts in their original direction, but the layout was extrememly spacious
> and generous, not saving with paper or book size :-) --- it's also not a dictionary
> in the sense we know it; actually, more like a glossary giving one, at most two
> words for each main entry, probably 18th or 19th century Asian production.
There are a number of Qing dynasty polyglot dictionaries and
glossaries, the most famous of which is the late 18th century
"Imperial Pentaglot Dictionary" (御製五體清文鑑):
<http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/Buch/Pentaglot-2.html>
But as you say, such dictionaries do not help us in our present
discussion as the different scripts are not intermixed.
Andrew
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