L10n:Dictionaries

If we ever want to improve our situation with dictionaries, it would be good to know:

• How many different dictionary formats there are
• Which ones different major projects use
• What dictionaries exist in each
• Who knows about their copyright status

Afrikaans

Afrikaans dictionaries are built for MySpell and aspell by translate.org.za. Releases available at SourceForge. They are released under LGPL. --Friedelwolff 07:57, 9 Feb 2006 (PST)

Basque

There is no open Basque dictionary at the moment

Bulgarian [bg]

There is only one project dealing with free Bulgarian dictionaries and its releases can be found in bgoffice Sourceforge project files. The license of spell dictionaries (aspell/ispell/myspell) is GPL2.

Catalan

Catalan dictionaries are available in MySpell and Aspell formats under a GPL License at http://www.jmoratinos.com Toniher

Czech

The only open Czech dictionary I know is [Ispell] that was coverted by OOo guys to [MySpell]. Both dictionaries are under GPL/LGPL. However the original Ispell is kind of abandoned and its author doesn't communicate at all. Therefore, our efforts with relicencing failed. --User:Pawell

Danish

The danish dictionary is available as aspell/ispell/myspell under GPL2. An alternative dictionary using hunspell is being developed.

British English [en-GB]

The [British English dictionary] is released under the LGPL.

Dutch

The dutch dictionary is available as myspell under GPL2

French

There's a MySpell fr_FR dictionary provided by OOo under GPL v2 [1]. Licence notes : [2](fr).

Hebrew

OpenOffice.org has a localized version in hebrew, that uses the Hspell format, which is similar to MySpell. They converted it to MySpell for use with mozilla, and it's available here. the MySpell format is GPL, and i think Hspell too. Tsahi

Hungarian

OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 source contains a Hungarian spell checker dictionary from the MagyarIspell project. This dictionary is licensed under LGPL and it is optimised to the Hunspell spell checking engine which is the successor of MySpell in OOo. For MySpell there is a former version of MagyarIspell (0.99.4) which is under GPL and is distributed on [3] --Timar 03:56, 21 Feb 2006 (PST)

Irish

The free Irish dictionary is available in aspell/ispell/myspell formats, licensed under the GPL. See http://borel.slu.edu/ispell/ --Kscanne

Italian

The free Italian dictionary is available in aspell/myspell/OOo formats and as an .xpi for Mozilla, licensed only under the GPL. We asked about relicensing it, but the answer was negative. See Linguistico project. --Prometeo

Kurdish

The Kurdish free dictonary is available as aspell/ispell/myspell, licensed under the GPL. If necessary, we can license it under something else, too. The URL is http://sourceforge.net/projects/myspellkurdish --Erdal Ronahi 07:00, 21 Feb 2006 (PST)

Lithuanian

Lithuanian ispell/aspell/myspell dictionary is available under a BSD licence from http://files.akl.lt/ispell-lt/.

Macedonian [mk]

The macedonian dictionary is public domain.

Polish

The Polish free dictonary is available as aspell/ispell/myspell, licensed under the MPL/GPL/LGPL and CC-SA: http://www.kurnik.pl/slownik/ort/

Other projects using this dictionary:

• OpenOffice.org (it uses the older, GPL/CC-SA licensed version, see http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/README_pl_PL.txt )

Marcoos 10:04, 19 July 2006 (PDT)

Portuguese

The base dictionaries come from Project Natura's myspell dictionary. It's licensed GPL2/BSD.

Dictionaries: http://natura.di.uminho.pt/natura/natura?&topic=Dicion%E1rios

Joao Miguel Neves 15:51, 12 September 2006 (WET)

Russian

There are three Russian Myspell dictionaries in Openoffice (all of them were converted from ispell format) - two of them are licensed under some proprietary license and one is licensed under GPL/LGPL/MPL/CC-SA. --Unghost

Slovak

The open Slovak dictionaries are maintained by [sk-spell] project. Both ispell and aspell dictionaries are released under GPL/LGPL. The myspell dictionary is relleased under the trilicence GPL / LGPL / MPL --User:Branor

Serbian

The Serbian dictionary is made with Myspell. It was produced by Igor Miletić (Игор Милетић), based on the Serbian Aspell dictionary made by Goran Rakić (Горан Ракић). See Serbian Aspell. The dictionary is released under MPL, GPL, and LGPL, the proof of which is given in the LICENSE.txt file of the localized spell checker directory. filmil

Vietnamese

There's currently an Aspell dictionary for Vietnamese that is licensed under the LGPL. [4] I've been contacted by someone creating a spellchecker for a Vietnamese distribution of OpenOffice.org (Hunspell?). A demo of that spellchecker is available. [5] I haven't tried either, but I'd imagine creating a Vietnamese spell checker is a bit more straightforward than an English one, say. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 01:25, 7 June 2007 (PDT)

Walloon (wa)

There is a Walloon dictionaries being enriched; it's main target is aspell, but myspell is easily built from it (there is a "make myspell" rule); also a rule to make an XPI for firefox; and a (quite rude) rule to make a myspell for OOo (copying the files to local directory tree, ouch :) )

It can be downloaded on http://chanae.walon.org/walon/aspell.php license is LGPL. -- Srtxg

Zulu

Provisional Zulu dictionaries are built for MySpell and aspell by translate.org.za. Releases available at SourceForge. They are released under LGPL. --Friedelwolff 07:57, 9 Feb 2006 (PST)