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At this site you can learn how to say greetings and several other words and phrases in hundreds of different languages.  The purpose of these pages is to promote intercultural communication and understanding, and to increase awareness of the linguistic diversity around the world. Ethnologue, 20th Edition1 lists 7,099 currently languages spoken in the world. Approximately 46% percent of these languages are included on this website as of August 2017 (3,300 languages).

 

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 Greetings in More Than 3000 Languages

 

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Greetings in More Than 3000 Languages

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Articles and Other Information

    Greetings in More Than 3000 Pages (link takes you to the beginning of the translation list)       

    About Translating Greetings (information about greetings in different languages)

    About Languages and Dialects (information about the classification of languages)

    Language Family Comparisons (examples of similarities and differences within a language family)

    Frequently Ask Questions (information about this site)

 

Works Cited:

 

(The works below were consulted for language data such as language names, ISO 639-3 codes, and geographic locations where each language is spoken, as well as for the articles on this site.  See also Information about sources for information about sources of translations on this site.)

CDE. 2011. Language Census Instructions. Sacramento, California: California Department of Education. Online: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/dc/lc/documents/lcinstruc11.doc (link no longer active)


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NALI. 2010. Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales. México D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas. Online: http://www.inali.gob.mx/clin-inali/

Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.). 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online: http://archive.ethnologue.com/15/

Grimes, Barbara F. (ed.). 2000. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fourteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online: http://archive.ethnologue.com/14/


Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online: 
http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/


Lewis, M. Paul. 2013. "So What's in a Name?" Ethnoblog. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online:
https://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/paul-lewis/so-whats-name

Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2014. Ethnologue: Languages of Africa and Europe, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. (Print edition.)

Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2014. Ethnologue: Languages of the Americas and the Pacific, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. (Print edition.)

Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2014. Ethnologue: Languages of Asia, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. (Print edition.)


Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2014. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online:
http://www.ethnologue.com/17/

Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online:
http://www.ethnologue.com

Linguist L
ist. 2014. Multitree: A digital library of language relationships. Bloomington, IN: Department of Linguistics, The LINGUIST List, Indiana University. Online: http://multitree.org/

Open Language Archives Community. 2015. OLAC Language Resource Catalog. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.  Online: http://www.language-archives.org

SIL International. 2015.
ISO 639-3. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online: http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3

SIL International. 2014. Worldwide: Languages of the World. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online: http://www.sil.org/worldwide

Simons, Gary F. and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2017. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Twentieth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online: http://www.ethnologue.com

 

 



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