Humanities · Curated directory
Languages: languages, language families and writing systems
Three lists: the languages and language families the world has written most about, and the scripts they are written in. Each one chosen by machine from open data and ranked by how much of the world has written about it.
- Lists
- 3
- Entries
- 90
- Photographed
- 60
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The lists
Each one ranked by how much of the world has written about its entries, and filtered for what it is really about.
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Language families
Indo-European languages · Romance languages · Slavic languages
30 families
Photo: Multiple authors, first version by Mandrak, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Writing systems
International Phonetic Alphabet · Cyrillic script · Greek alphabet
30 writing systems
Photo: Kjoonlee, Public domain
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