(this content is also available in Markdown format: github.com/ankiedos/Endangered-Languages-Dictionary/blob/main/README.en.md)
This project aims to be a dictionary for as much as possible of world's languages that are at risk of extinction. A few examples are:
- (x) Kashubian
- () Lower Sorbian
- () Upper Sorbian (though it is gaining popularity among the descendants of the native speakers nowadays)
- () Rusyn
- () Wymysiöeryś (Vilamovian)
- () Yiddish
- () Ainu
- () Manchu
- () a lot of Caucasian languages
- () and many more...
Apart from that, this website is going to be available in different languages. Here's a list of ready & planned:
- (x) English
- (x) Polish
- () Spanish
- () German
- () Ukrainian
- () Those which the dictionary has phrases in
Why there are such white & not much styled webpages?!!
This is a dictionary, which is an interlanguage medium associating phrases of different languages with each other. A dictionary is not an artwork. People use it to find out an analogous or a similar phrase in another language, not to please their eyes.
Therefore, it does not depend heavily on stylesheets. I hope this is understandable.
Any plans on extending this?
Yes. The plan is to create a vortal about languages. A detailed roadmap follows:
- Assign definitions to various translations of entries
- Create lessons & excercises on the languages handled by the dictionary
- Extend this website so that the previous version will be just a section
- Sections for auxiliary, research, logical & philosophical, artistic, and other constructed languages
- Sections for natural languages, differentiated by the families they belong to
- Sections for pidgins and creoles
- Create resources on linguistics, especially phonetics & IPA
- Create resources about cultures of the world
- Create a forum (& a collaborative platform for constructed languages), but when the website will be hosted somewhere else, hence getting a prospect of being a dynamic one
About the author
My name's Antoni [an̪ˈt̪ɔɲi] (or Anthony in English) and am a highschool student from Poland, starting the last (4th) grade this year's September.
I'm mainly a linguistics & computer science nerd, but am also interested in sociology, psychology, cultural studies, literature, and philosophy.
I would like to study computer science and classics.