Origins of Language


Explore this site to hear vocab in many languages!
Hello World

Click on a language to find out all about it! Check the blue menu at the top
of each page to see its writing and click Resources for more links
Explore Languages

Here you can click on each language to hear a greeting- use your headphones!
NASA originally placed these recordings on the Voyager spacecraft 25 years ago
for any extraterrestrials who might hear it !
Greetings in Space

This page will tell you about Endangered Languages
Endangered Languages

Why study a foreign language?? Click here to find out....
Why Languages?

At the top of this page, select a language and a state to see how many people
speak that language there. For example, try Spanish/Connecticut to see how
many Spanish speakers live here !
U.S. Language Map

This chart will let you compare the Romance languages and see how they are
similar and different.....
Romance Language Chart

Scroll down here to see why English and German are brother languages....
Compare German-English


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