There are 7105 living languages on our planet. Among them - state: 682; developing: 1,534; vigorous: 2,502; endangered: 1,481; dying: 906.
(Artificial languages are not considered here).
Native American tribal language data are mainly obtained from the site http://www.native-languages.org/
The data on the languages of the Austronesian family are mainly obtained from the site Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary http://www.trussel2.com/acd/acd-l_b.htm
New Guinean languages data is mainly obtained from the site TransNewGuinea.org (http://transnewguinea.org/)
Also applied data bases:
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) http://wals.info/
The Global Lexicostatistical Database (GLD) - http://starling.rinet.ru
MARTINDALE - http://www.martindalecenter.com
PanLex - https://panlex.org/ - 6569 languages
The ASJP Database: http://asjp.clld.org/
and dictionaries of the site http://www.freelang.net
The languages of the aborigenes of America data received mainly from the website http://www.native-languages.org/
The languages of the Austronesian family data received from the website Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary mainly http://www.trussel2.com/acd/acd-l_b.htm
Special gratitude to Tatiana Zaytseva, Alex Drozdov who supported my work at the beginning.
Some data was provided by Prof. Ion Carstoiu (Romania). In his turn he used the data of Mr Dirk Ross (Japan). The data are marked by (*) and they are not checked yet.
Several items were given by Victor Palermo (they are not checked yet).
Unfortunately, we have to admit that this list is still quite crude, there is a lot of work to be ... .
It should be noted that the russian version is more developed and the main one. The English version is secondary.
The page of the List contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.
n3d - 3 pronounse approximately like vowel in english word 'sun')
i5o5o - 5 pronounse approximately like n
ta7a 7 - it means an apostrophe
8 - it may mean the sound like S (or d) or th
** - inprecise representation of pronunciation
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