3. The method of claim 2 , wherein at least a first linguistic element not in the core alphabet is stored on the handheld electronic device, at least a first language object comprising the at least first linguistic element being stored in the second data source, and further comprising, for the at least one compound language solution, identifying as the language object corresponding with the initial portion the at least first language object.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least some of the linguistic elements together form a core alphabet, the language objects stored in the first data source each consisting of a number of the linguistic elements of the core alphabet, and further comprising searching the first data source as the one of the first data source and the second data source.