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Afro-Asiatic: Hebrew, Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Somali, Hausa, Aramaic, Maltese, Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Austro-Tai: Hawaiian, Indonesian, Tagalog, Cebuano, Javanese, Balinese, Malay, Malagasy, Thai, Lao, Fijian, Tongan, Tahitian, Samoan, Maori, Javanese
Baltic: Latvian, Lithuanian, Prussian, Suldovian
Celtic: Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Gaulish, Irish, Manx
Finno-Ugric: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Sami/Lapp, Nenets, Livonian, Karelian, Vodian, Vepsian, Cheremis, Votyak, Komi, Vogul, Ostyak, Enets, Nganasan, Selkup.
Germanic Languages: Dutch, English, German, Yiddish, Gothic, Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Frisian, Afrikaans
Hellenic: Ancient, Koine, and Modern Greek
Indo-Iranian: Farsi/Persian, Urdu/Hindi, Romany/Gypsy, Kurdish, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati
Romance: French, Italian, Romanian, Asturian, Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Rumansch, Catalan, Sardinian, Galician, Occitan, Valencian, Sardinian, Walloon
Italic: Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Volscian, Picene, Faliscan and Latin
Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and any other Chinese dialect, Tibetan, Burmese, Sharpa, Miao, Yao, Hakka
Slavic: Plish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Czech, Sorbian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic,
Pidgins and Creoles: Contact languages such as Tok Pisin, Krio, Rasta Patois, Kreyol, Papiamentu, Bazaar and Baba Malay, Hawaiian Pidgin, Sango, Lingala, Cajun, Michif, Chinook Jargon
Niger-Kordofanian: Swahili, Bantu, Wolof, Fulani, Zulu, Mandink, Kongo, Shiyeye, Akan, Bamileke, Ewe, Yoruba
Altaic: Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Kazakh
Dravidian: Tamil, Telegu
Austro-Asiatic: Khmer, Muong, Vietnamese
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Extensive database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map, language family, country, and language name. From SIL International. Also offers print and CD-ROM versions.
How to say hello, please, thank you, and other basic social phrases, in hundreds of languages. Includes links to dictionaries, phrase guides, and other resources for many of the world's languages and countries.
Typology of the world's languages from the Fu Jen Catholic University. In English and Chinese.
Introduction to the major language families, including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic.
Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.
Online shop of teaching materials on various European languages (including some quite rare ones) plus Esperanto.
List-servers for a wide variety of language studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien.
Linguistic maps of Europe, Africa, America and Oceania. Priority is given to endangered languages and minority linguistic people.
Working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone, a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages.
Extensive information and web links on languages.
How to say hello, please, thank you, and other basic social phrases, in hundreds of languages. Includes links to dictionaries, phrase guides, and other resources for many of the world's languages and countries.
Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.
Extensive database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map, language family, country, and language name. From SIL International. Also offers print and CD-ROM versions.
Typology of the world's languages from the Fu Jen Catholic University. In English and Chinese.
Online shop of teaching materials on various European languages (including some quite rare ones) plus Esperanto.
Working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone, a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages.
Introduction to the major language families, including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic.
List-servers for a wide variety of language studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien.
Linguistic maps of Europe, Africa, America and Oceania. Priority is given to endangered languages and minority linguistic people.
Extensive information and web links on languages.
Other languages 10
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