Mercury Dictionary

Mercury Dictionary is a multi-language dictionary consisting of 17 languages. You can see the list of languages here below, but let me tell you first a little about them. There are 5 Nordic languages (Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic ), 2 Finno-Ugric (Finnish and Estonian), 6 Germanic (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, German), 5 Latin (France, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin), 2 Cyrillic (Greek and Russian,), one African (Swahili) and one Asian (Japanese). They are all color-coded to make for easy distinction between the different languages.And here they are in the order they always appear:

English Finnish Estonian Swedish Danish Norwegian Icelandic

German France Spanish Portuguese Italian Latin

Greek Russian Swahili Japanese

This blog aims to make each and one of those languages familiar to you - if you are up for it! There is no certain order in the blog articles, but there is a definite order in the way the languages are presented in the dictionary. You may not be able to see the order at first hand, but it is there, as fool-proof as ever! For everything is in an alphabetical order, which is also given on top of each page - lest you forget.

15 of these MD-languages are search languages, i.e. you can search words and sentences in all of them. Greek and Russian are excluded (at least so far) - being Cyrillic, they are much harder to incorporate in the search function. The dictionary functions on all 17 languages at once, i.e. you find all the languages intermingled, but everything in alphabetical order. The alphabetical order of MD is as follows:

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National preferences have not been taking into consideration but there is instead a uniform order which for example the German u/ü and o/ö  is restricted to. Same goes for the Icelandic á and í.  Some  more additional  national letters exist. Japanese search words are written with romaji, but also kanji and kana are given. Read more about the individual languages in their own pages. 

Later on you will be able to click at any of the above languages in color, and get an individual page for that language. Furthermore, articles will show in headline what languages any specific article deals with.