An Annotated Bibliography of Bilingual Dictionaries and Vocabularies of the Languages of the World held at Indiana University, Bloomington

The bibliography is still in progress. The present bibliography is substantially complete for languages beginning with the letters A-M. For the letters N-Z it is presently limited to catalogued items held by the Lilly Library, with items from the Herman B Wells Library still be to added. The first portion of the bibliography, covering the letters A-E, appeared on Bibsite in March of 2016. This is the second version (A-Z: 2017), which replaces the first. The bibliography will be corrected and updated yearly. The entries are arranged alphabetically by language, as they are in Wolfram Zaunmüller's Bibliographisches Handbuch der Sprachwörterbücher (1958), but with far more detailed descriptions and annotations, and a greatly expanded number of languages. The name of each language is followed by a brief description taken from standard sources such as Wikipedia (cited as "Wiki"), Ethnologue and others. Scholarly disagreement as to the status of a language (or dialect) is generally indicated in the description. With few exceptions, the name of the language follows the primary listing in Ethnologue. The individual dictionaries and vocabularies are listed in chronological order, from their earliest appearance down to the present day. Polyglot dictionaries are included where deemed appropriate, particularly those including rare and unusual languages. The term polyglot here includes both true polyglot dictionaries, and works that include bilingual vocabularies for more than two languages. 2 The bibliographic descriptions vary in style and content. In many cases they are based on the compiler's examination of works in his own collection, and reflect his personal preferences when describing pagination, binding, and other bibliographical details.