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Omniglot: A Guide to Written Language

http://www.omniglot.com/index.htm

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The aim of Omniglot “is to provide a comprehensive overview of written language in all its forms. It also includes multilingual texts, tips on learning languages, some useful phrases in many different languages, and an ever-growing collection of links to language-related resources.”Some of the information found on this site includes:

  • Writing Systems. Information about over 150 different writing systems. Each page contains an illustration of a writing system; details of its origin, usage, notable features and the language(s) written with it; a sample text, and useful links.
  • Language learning. Covers such topics as why learn a language, what is the best way to study, learning pronunciation, careers using languages, and more.
  • Foreign phrases. Learn assorted useful phrases in several languages and equivants of such phrases as it’s raining cats and dogs and my hovercraft is full of eels.
  • Multilingual pages. Include language names in their own scripts, country/region names in local languages, numerals in many different scripts, Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 205 languages, and the Tower of Babel story in 88 languages.

The word ‘omniglot’ comes from the Latin omnis (all) and the Greek glotta (tongue) and means ‘proficient in all languages’ or ‘having knowledge of all languages’.