MetaFilter posts tagged with vocabulary and languages

The Wikipedia of dictionaries

anjamu — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:18:40 -0800

Wikiwords is a collaborative project to create a dictionary of all terms in all languages.

The Little Prince in a 100 Languages

gregb1007 — Tue, 17 May 2005 19:01:08 -0800

If listening to sound of different languages is something you may be interested in, visit the multimedia language project website hosted by the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. It features the sound files of a small blurb from Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince read outloud in a 100 different languages. The blurbs are also textually transcribed. [See more inside]

Native Languages of the Americas

Ufez Jones — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:31:18 -0800

Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and promoting American Indian languages.

You will learn something, I guarontee!

Ufez Jones — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:31:07 -0800

The Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture features everything from Acadiana to Zydeco. Two of the more interesting entries I've found are the Un-Cajun Committee and the unknown to me genre of Swamp Pop

world languages

stbalbach — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 12:44:13 -0800

The World has at least 6,800 active languages and countless more dialects ranging from Alacatlatzala to Zoque Tabasco. These are the Top 10 languages.

flestrin — Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:39:33 -0800

This pidgin bible translation gives me the creeps. What happened to promoting literacy by example? Sure, it's important to use language that your readers are comfortable with, but come on already. Is it any wonder that education in Hawaii stinks?