IFESCCO launches electronic dictionaries for the CIS and Georgia

The Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Cooperation (IFESCCO), with the support of the CIS and the

ABBYY, is introducing electronic dictionaries in the official languages of

the CIS and Georgia, which will appear in the spring of 2013.

"The program will include 12 state language dictionaries in the

following countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan,

Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Uzbekistan,

Ukraine and Georgia. The electronic dictionaries will be useful to public

authorities and non-profit organizations of the Commonwealth, the

National Academies of Sciences and universities, as well as undergraduate

and graduate students,"  IFESCCO said, RIA Novosti reportes.

Mikhail Shvydkoi, a co-chairman of the Management Board, said that

one of the main tasks of the IFESCCO is "to support and strengthen

national languages and national cultures." "The dictionary with a

linguistic structure is a tool for the conservation of the cultural

heritage of the countries of the CIS," Shvydkoi said.