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The world's languages & scripts

Every tongue, one connected map of speech.

Language Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of the world's languages, from families, scripts, and grammars to etymologies, alphabets, and beyond. Search any language and follow its threads through every tongue that touches it.

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African Language Families
281 entries
Australian Language Families
164 entries
Eurasian Language Families
397 entries
New Guinea and Pacific Language Families
353 entries
North American Language Families
173 entries
South American Language Families
292 entries

Languages

21
Austronesian Languages
17 entries
Baltic, Armenian, Albanian, Hellenic and Ancestral Indo-European Languages
7 entries
Bantu Languages
10 entries
Celtic Languages
3 entries
Dravidian Languages
4 entries
Germanic Languages
11 entries
Indigenous Languages of the Americas
11 entries
Indo-Aryan Languages
18 entries
Iranian Languages
8 entries
Language Isolates, Creoles and Pidgins
7 entries
Mande Languages
1 entry
Other Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Khoisan Languages
11 entries
Other Language Families of Asia
9 entries
Other Niger-Congo Languages
7 entries
Papuan and Australian Languages
3 entries
Romance Languages
7 entries
Semitic Languages
14 entries
Sino-Tibetan Languages
8 entries
Slavic Languages
15 entries
Turkic Languages
9 entries
Uralic Languages
3 entries

Scripts

6
Abjads
14 entries
Abugidas
20 entries
Alphabets
18 entries
Logographic Scripts
3 entries
Logo-Syllabic Scripts
4 entries
Syllabaries
6 entries

Linguists

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Anthropological and Documentary Linguistics
16 entries
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
18 entries
Philology and Decipherment
15 entries
Structural and Theoretical Linguistics
27 entries

Dialects and Varieties

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English Dialects and Varieties
19 entries
French Dialects and Varieties
5 entries
German Dialects and Varieties
8 entries
Other Dialects and Varieties
48 entries
Spanish Dialects and Varieties
9 entries

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Language Families

Luwian

Luwian is an extinct Anatolian language of the Indo-European family, closely related to Hittite and grouped with Lycian and Carian in a proposed Luwic

Languages

Ilocano

Iloco, or Ilocano, is an Austronesian language primarily spoken in the Philippines by the Ilocano people. It is one of the eight major languages of th

Scripts

Ge'ez Script

The Ge'ez script is the writing system of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands, descended from the Ancient South Arabian script carried across the Red

Linguists

Charles J. Fillmore

Charles J. Fillmore was an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his doctorate in ling

Dialects and Varieties

Gyeongsang Dialect

The Gyeongsang dialect is the variety of Korean native to the Yeongnam region of South Korea, corresponding to the historic Gyeongsang provinces and i

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Aegean philology and historical linguistics

What language does Linear A encode?

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