Ispell is distributed with dictionaries and affix files for the British and American variants of the English language. For other languages, you will need to download a dictionary and affix file for each language. (Affix files for languages other than English are no longer distributed with ispell, due to the difficulty of keeping them up to date.) If you install your dictionaries and affix files into the proper directories with correct Makefiles, you can add extra languages to the "LANGUAGES" variable in local.h and your extra dictionaries will be created automatically. To help you with this task, ispell is distributed with sample Makefiles for several common languages. To find dictionaries and affix files, visit the ispell dictionaries web page at: http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html This page is expected to move in the future, but a forwarding page will remain. More ispell information can be found at the ispell home page: http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html