Lingvo, a family of dictionary software for desktop PC, PDA and smartphones, gives translations of words and phrases for 11 European and Asian languages, accompanied with transcription, pronunciation, word usage examples and the list of inflected forms. The languages are: Russian, English, German, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Ukrainian, French, Chinese. It is a product of Russian software company ABBYY

ABBYY

ABBYY is a Russian software company, headquartered in Moscow, that provides optical character recognition, document capture and language software for both PC and mobile devices.-History:ABBYY was founded in 1989 by David Yang...

. Since 2007, print dictionaries have been produced under ABBYY Lingvo brand by a publishing company ABBYY Press.

Lingvo is the most widely spread dictionary software in Russia with estimated number of users exceeding 5 000 000 people.

The word "lingvo" means "language" in Esperanto

Esperanto

is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...

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Learning utility

The program comes with a tool for learning words, Lingvo Tutor, which is a special repetition program. It allows to set up a study schedule, to create an own word study dictionary and to use one of the basic dictionaries included in the program. The Lingvo Tutor tool can also be installed on a pocket computer helping users to learn words on every possible occasion at any place.

Known Bugs

Translation in pop-up window of Lingvo 12 didn′t work with popular web browsers

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

 Mozilla Firefox 3

Mozilla Firefox 3

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is a version of the Firefox web browser released on June 17, 2008 by the Mozilla Corporation.Firefox 3.0 uses version 1.9 of the Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages. This version fixes many bugs, improves standard compliance, and implements many new web APIs compared to...

 and Opera 9.5 until the new Lingvo x3 was released.

Lingvo online

Lingvo Online is a free online Russian-to 5 other languages dictionary

Dictionary

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...

 combined with human translation service. This web service

Web service

A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...

 includes 38 different authoritative dictionaries.
Lingvo Online is provided by ABBYY

ABBYY

ABBYY is a Russian software company, headquartered in Moscow, that provides optical character recognition, document capture and language software for both PC and mobile devices.-History:ABBYY was founded in 1989 by David Yang...

 on the base of its ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software. The service was launched internationally in October 2007.

See also

• GoldenDict
  GoldenDict
  GoldenDict is a computer open-source dictionary program that gives translations of words and phrases for different languages. It allows to use several popular dictionary file formats simultaneously and without conversion....
  
  
• StarDict
  StarDict
  StarDict, developed by Hu Zheng , is a free GUI released under the GPL for accessing StarDict dictionary files . It is the successor of the program StarDic, developed by Ma Su'an...
  
  
• Babylon
  Babylon (program)
  Babylon is a computer dictionary and translation program for Microsoft Windows, developed by Babylon Ltd., an Israeli public company .-History:...
  
  
• Dicto
• Fluentizer
• LiteDict
• PROMT
  PROMT
  PROMT is a Russian company focused upon the development of machine translation systems. At the moment PROMT translators exist for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian languages...
  
  
• WiseDict

External links

• Lingvo web-site
• Alternative software (translation by click): Clicktionary, SlovoEd A.K.A. MultiLex/AlfaLex, Lingoes, Lion, TranslateClient