World's Languages and Speech-Communities
As we enter a new millennium, the exploration of our global linguistic environment and the achievement of a new planetary view of human languages - of humanity itself - need to be the concern
of all who are interested in our common destiny. The themes and ideas on this website, addressed to a general audience, have been developed as part of the work of the Linguasphere
Observatory, an independent organisation (created in 1983, with no political, religious, institutional or governmental affiliations) devoted to the worldwide study and promotion of
multilingualism.
The Linguasphere Observatory is a viewing-platform in cyberspace from which our linguasphere may be observed as a transnational system around the globe and from which
the situation of each linguistic community, however small, may be seen in its local and global context.
(other
language options in preparation)
The Linguasphere Register
of the World's Languages and Speech-Communities is the first comprehensive and transnational classification of the languages and dialects of the world and is available NOW
through this website. Illustrations on this site are reproduced from 'Africa
and the Written Word' by David Dalby (Imprimeries Réunies de Senlis, 1986) and 'du Langage aux Langues' by Ranka Bijeljac and Roland Breton (Gallimard, 1997).
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