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About the Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project

The Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project was started in 1997. The dictionary software is written by Ho Ngoc Duc. The databases were contributed by a number of people, including Nguyen Tien Dzung, Pham Phuong Toan, To Long Thanh, Tran Cong So, and Ho Ngoc Duc. Since 1998 the server software and the databases are developed and maintained by Ho Ngoc Duc. The JavaScript component for typing Vietnamese online was written by Tran Anh Tuan.

Currently, the following dictionaries are available:

• English - Vietnamese dictionary (Từ điển Anh - Việt) (110.000 words)
• Vietnamese - English dictionary (Từ điển Việt - Anh) (23.000 words)
• French - Vietnamese dictionary (Từ điển Pháp - Việt) (48.000 words)
• Vietnamese - French dictionary (Từ điển Việt - Pháp) (39.000 words)
• German - Vietnamese dictionary (Từ điển Đức - Việt) (45.000 words)
• Vietnamese - German dictionary (Từ điển Việt - Đức) (12.000 words)
• Vietnamese dictionary (Từ điển tiếng Việt) (30.000 words)
• Norwegian-Vietnamese dictionary (Từ điển Na Uy - Việt) (20.000 words)

You can also download the dictionary to use off-line. A version for PalmOS and PocketPC is also available.

Copyright

The dictionary program, its source code and the dictionary databases are distributed under GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and redistribute this software and its documentation for personal, non-commercial use is hereby granted provided that this copyright notice and appropriate documentation appears in all copies.