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Thread poster: Stendahls
Stendahls
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May 13, 2005

Hello everyone!

I am looking for a list of the worlds languages in there native tongue.
Is there anyone out there who can point me in the right direction?

Have a nice weekend everyone!!

Best regards
Daniel

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Mario Marcolin
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Ethnologue May 13, 2005

This http://www.ethnologue.com/ is the most comprehensive source I know of

/mario

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Jeff Allen
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contacts to find world language list May 14, 2005

Stendahls wrote:
I am looking for a list of the worlds languages in there native tongue.
Is there anyone out there who can point me in the right direction?


Mario Marcolin wrote:
This http://www.ethnologue.com/ is the most comprehensive source I know of


The Ethnologue is comprehensive, but won't provide a list of the names of the languages in the languages themselves. When I contributed to entries to the Ethnologue, I don't recall that type of entry.

Two avenues to pursue for this:

1.
Send your question to the Letters to Editor address of MultiLingual Computing & Technology:
http://www.multilingual.com/
Select About us --> Contact information
The email alias for Letters is letters@..... instead of the other aliases that are provided.

2.
Go to the Ask-A-Linguist page of the LINGUIST List which has a panel of 60 linguists for such questions about linguistics in general:
http://www.linguistlist.org/ask-ling/before-submitting.html

Both are good on providing answers to questions, but won't necessary provide the answer by tomorrow morning.

Hope that helps,

Jeff Allen
Advisor, MultiLingual Computing & Technology
Advisor, LINGUIST List
http://www.geocities.com/jeffallenpubs/
 
Balasubramaniam L.
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An idea May 14, 2005

I haven't found the list you want, but have an idea.

Suppose the proz.com members wrote and send you in their script the languages in which they work, you should have a nearly exhaustive list of the languages of the world. I believe there are 100,000 registered members, they should be representing all the major languages.

Here is the list of the names of the languages that use devnagari script:

Sanskrit: संस्कृत
Hindi:हिंदी
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I haven't found the list you want, but have an idea.

Suppose the proz.com members wrote and send you in their script the languages in which they work, you should have a nearly exhaustive list of the languages of the world. I believe there are 100,000 registered members, they should be representing all the major languages.

Here is the list of the names of the languages that use devnagari script:

Sanskrit: संस्कृत
Hindi:हिंदी
Marathi: मराठी
Nepali: नेपाली

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Maria Karra
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here's one link May 16, 2005

Stendahls wrote:
Hello everyone!
I am looking for a list of the worlds languages in there native tongue.


Daniel,
while I was "lost in Google", trying to find information on something I'm translating, look what I found:
http://www.geonames.de/languages.html

I hope you find it useful.
Maria
 
Stendahls
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Thank you! May 17, 2005

Great! Thank you for all you help!

Best regards
Daniel
 
Ernesto de Lara
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In memoriam
languages in Mexico May 17, 2005

Additionally to spanish please see the official list of languages for this Country at:
http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/rutinas/ept.asp?t=mlen10&c=3337

Regards


Maria Karra wrote:

Stendahls wrote:
Hello everyone!
I am looking for a list of the worlds languages in there native tongue.


Daniel,
while I was "lost in Google", trying to find information on something I'm translating, look what I found:
http://www.geonames.de/languages.html

I hope you find it useful.
Maria
 
Amancio Iglesias
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Try here... May 18, 2005

this might be a good starting point

http://www.tesarta.com/www/resources/languages.html

buena suerte!
 


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