All human beings are born free and equal in dignity
and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act
towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
This section includes over 300 languages grouped into language families so that you can see the similarities and differences between them.
Afroasiatic (Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Hausa, Hebrew, Kabyle, Maltese, Somali, Tamazight, Tigrinya)
Languages of North America (Cakchiquel, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chinanteco, Cree, Greenlandic Inuktitut, Huasteco, Mam, Mazahua, Mazatec, Mi'kmaq, Miskito, Nahuatl, Navajo, Ojibwe, Otomi, Pipil, Purhépecha, Q'echi, Tojol-a'b'al, Totonaco, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Wama, Yacatec, Zapoteco)
Languages of South America (Achuar-Shiwiar, Aguaruna, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri, Arabela, Ashàninca, Ashéninca, Aymara, Bora, Campa pajonalino, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Cashinahua, Chayahuita, Garifuna, Guaraní, Huitoto Murui, Matsés, Nomatsiguenga, Quechua, Quichua, Sharanahua, Shipibo-Conibo, Toba, Wayuu, Yagua Záparo)
Altaic (Azerbaijani, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Kazak, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Shor, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut, Yukagir)
Austro-Asiatic (Khmer, Vietnamese)
Austronesian (Achehnese, Balinese, Bikol, Bugisnese, Cebuano, Chamarro, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Javanese, Kapampangan, Madurese, Malagasy, Malay, Māori, Marshallese, Minangkabau, Palauan, Ponapean, Rarotongan, Samoan, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Trukese, Waray, Yapese)
Dravidian (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
Hmong-Mien (Hmong of Northern East-Guizhou, Hmong of Southern East-Guizhou, Hmong of Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan)
Niger-Congo (Adja, Akuapem Twi, Asante, Baatonum, Bambara, Baoulé, Batonu, Bemba, Béti, Chechewa, Cokwe, Dagaare, Dagbani, Ditammari, Edo, Ewe, Fante, Fon, Ga, Ganda, Gonja, Guen, Ibibio, Igbo, Jola-Fogny, Kaonde, Kasem, Kinyamwezi, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Koongo, Kpelle, Lamnso', Limba, Lingala, Lozi, Luba-Kasai, Luvale, Makonde, Maninka, Mende, Mòoré, Ndebele, Ndonga, Northern Sohto, Nyanja, Nyemba, Nzema, Pulaar, Rukonzo, Runyankore-rukiga, Serer-Sine, Shona, Siswati, Soninké, Southern Sotho, Sukuma, Susu, Swahili, Themne, Tiv, Umbundu, Vai, Western Sotho, Wolof, Xhosa, Yao, Yoruba, Zulu)
Nilo-Saharan (Balanda Viri, Bari, Dendi, Kanuri Yerwa, Nuer, Otuho, Shilluk)
Caucasian (Abkhaz, Georgian)
Tai-Kaidai (Lao, Thai, Zhuang)
Sino-Tibetan (Burmese, Chinese, Cantonese, Dzongkha, Hani, Karen, Tamang, Tibetan)
Uralic (Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Karelian, Nenets, Nganasan, Saami, Veps, Voro)
Yukaghir (Northern/Tundra Yukaghir)
Isolates (Basque, Cofán, Japanese, Korean, Páez, Ticuna, Urarina)
Pidgins and Creoles (Bichelamar, Haitian Creole, Kituba, Krio, Nigerian Pidgin English, Sango, Seychelles Creole, Solomons Pidgin, Tok Pisin)
International Auxiliary Languages (IALS) (Esperanto, Folkspraak, Ido, Interlingua, Lingua Franca Nova, Lojban)
Alternative writing systems (Deutschen Einheitskurzschrift, Gregg Shorthand, Pitman Shorthand, Shavian)
Constructed languages/alphabets (Cilthic, Deseret, Ihav Sabeired, Kabena'o, Languan, Tengwar, Üqoi, Vijyal, Volapük)
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Recordings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a number of languages
http://www.archive.org/details/universal_declaration_librivox
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