Azerbaijan will create an electronic database of materials collected to date in lexicography, member of the state commission on the language, department head of the Linguistics Institute of the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences Ismail Mammadov told.
He said the creation of databases provided by the order On strengthening the material-technical base of the Institute of Linguistics named after I.Nasimi of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, previously signed by the President of Azerbaijan.
Until now, work was carried out to establish an electronic database in lexicography, electronic versions of the Azerbaijani-Russian, Russian-Azerbaijani and spelling dictionaries were created, Mammadov said. The above order will make it possible to speed up the work done in this area, a member of the commission said.
Work on the preparation of a number of dictionaries is also carried out, he added. Dictionary of the frequencies of Azerbaijan is prepared with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies Dictionary.
In addition, the Spelling dictionary of the Azerbaijan language is improved. The new edition of the spelling dictionary will include up to 100,000 words, whereas now it includes 80,000 words, Mammadov added.
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