Re: Display of Mongolian in Arabic or Hebrew documents

On 23/11/2007, "André Szabolcs Szelp" <[email protected]> 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