Language Museum: the Samples of 2000 Languages in the World

Maintained by an amateur linguist in China, the Language Museum offers samples of 2,000 living and extinct languages. Each sample contains an image of the written language, an English translation, and statistics on how many people speak the particular language and in which countries. Each sample also provides the linguistic classification of the language’s family tree.

The site is fairly simple to navigate. All the languages represented are listed alphabetically, by name, on two different pages. The initial screen lists languages for the first half of the alphabet. The site contains a search box on both pages that allows users...