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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 5 07 August 2012 at 2:51am | IP Logged | ||
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While HTLAL was down, I downloaded some tables from SIL and built a searchable database
of 7,988 languages: Languages of the world Here are some fun queries to try: English French Arabic Chinese Egyptian Norse Sign Language Yes, this is an incredible time sink. Enjoy! Each entry links to a number of sources: - The Wikipedia article on the language. - The Ethnologue database entry for the language. - Maps of where the language is spoken, courtesy of Linguist List. - The HTLAL profile for the language, if any. - HTLAL threads about the language, if any. - HTLAL users who are studying the language. - The HTLAL wiki language description (if any). Please feel free to add some! The site is available in 3 languages. You can choose between them using the popup menu at the upper right of the screen. - English - French (please feel free to correct my mistakes!) - Brazilian Portuguese The Portuguese version was done by HTLAL's kirmly, who did an awesome job. Many thanks! My goal is to have a lots of translations so that we can practice whichever language we want. Please feel free to post questions and bug reports in this thread! And this isn't the only feature I want to build for HTLAL. :-) Edited by emk on 07 August 2012 at 7:18pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 5 07 August 2012 at 2:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Translating langforums
Why should we have to look at English all day when we study so many glorious languages? If you'd like to translate the site into a new language, here's how: 1. Decide what language you want to translate the site into, and announce it on this thread. I'll go ahead and add the language to the project for you. 2. Visit the translation site. 3. Click on "Sign in with Github". 4. If you have a Github account, go ahead and use it. 5. If you don't, create a new Localeapp account (and choose the FREE account!). 6. Click on the red number next to the language name and fill in the missing translations. 7. Post in this thread when you're done, or if you have questions. Thank you to anybody who wants to help, and don't hesitate to ask questions! Edited by emk on 07 August 2012 at 7:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 5 07 August 2012 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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OK, one more shiny new feature (while waiting for a client's server to restart).
You can now search in multiple languages. All of these queries, for example, should match "French": French français フランス語 But it gets even better! Use the popup on the upper-right to change the language to French or to Brazilian Portuguese, and the language names will be automatically translated and linked to the correct Wikipedia. Let's say you're a French speaker, and you search for "french". This will bring up mix of French and English results which appears as follows:
For the articles which link to the French Wikipedia, there's also an "(en)" link to take you to the English-language Wikipedia. The translated language names are actually based on the links between different versions of Wikipedia. Enjoy! Edited by emk on 07 August 2012 at 8:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4989 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 10 August 2012 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I could do something with German...
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