OBJECT LANGUAGE
(any language) Albanian Basque Belarusian Breton British Sign Language Bulgarian Catalan Cornish Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Faroese Finnish French Frisian Galician German German Sign Language Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Karelian Latin Latvian Lithuanian Lombard Luxembourgish Macedonian Maltese Norwegian Norwegian Sign Language Polish Polish Sign Language Portuguese Romanian Romansh Russian Sami Scots Scottish Gaelic Serbian Sign Language of the Netherlands Slovak Slovene Sorbian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Welsh Yiddish
The language the dictionary describes; the language the dictionary is about.
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(any language) Albanian Basque Belarusian Breton Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Faroese Finnish French Galician German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Latvian Lithuanian Lombard Macedonian Norwegian Norwegian Sign Language Occitan Polish Portuguese Romanian Romansh Russian Scottish Gaelic Serbian Slovak Slovene Sorbian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Welsh
The language in which the dictionary gives definitions and explanations. If same as object language, then the dictionary is monolingual. If different, then the dictionary is bilingual.
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