18种小语种汉外分类词典系列”是国家出版基金资助项目，该项目包括阿尔巴尼亚语、保加利亚语、波兰语、波斯语、菲律宾语、豪萨语、克罗地亚语、罗马尼亚语、缅甸语、尼泊尔语、僧伽罗语、泰语、泰米尔语、乌尔都语、匈牙利语、意大利语、印地语、印度尼西亚语18个语种。
本系列汉外分类词典涉及稀缺语种，很多都是该语种的第一部汉外分类词典。汉语词条及编排架构统一，收词21000余条，各语种略有增减。内容涉及日常生活、社会生活、公共事务、经济活动、社会及自然科学五大门类。词汇按所属范畴排列，既便于查找，也为读者提供了一个较为全面的知识系统；汉语词条全部加注汉语拼音并翻译成英文，便于不懂汉语的国外读者学习。
The Series of Classified Dictionaries （Chinese-18 Foreign Languages） is a project funded by the National Publication Foundation. It covers 18 foreign languages, including Albanian, Bulgarian, Polish, Farsi, Philippine, Hausa, Croatian, Romanian, Myanmar, Nepalese, Sinhalese, Thai, Tamil, Urdu, Hungarian, Italian, Hindi and Indonesian. This series not only includes a number of rare foreign languages, some are also the first classified dictionaries of that language.
Each dictionary in the series contains as many as 21,000 entries, covering a wide range of 44 topics in five big categories, such as house tenancy, leisure activities, culture and art, public safety, environment protection, social security, finance and stock, marketing management, etc. The content is about everyday life and features a large number of newly-appeared words. The words and phrases are arranged in sequence according to the category they belong to for users’ convenience. All the Chinese entries are annotated with Chinese Pinyin and translated into English for the convenience of foreign readers.