Alpha Directory calls itself a “Language Dictionary”. I found their introduction very intriguing and filled with fantastic possibilities for the family history researcher:
Of the roughly 6,800 known languages and dialects spoken in the 191 countries of the world, only 2,261 have writing systems (the others are only spoken) and about 300 of these have online dictionaries.
6,800 languages! Wow. Alpha Directory helps you track down dictionaries and resources for the different languages. They don’t have all 6,800 plus, but they are adding new resources all the time.
So if you are looking for Eskimo, Finnish, Philippine, Creole and Pidgin Languages, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Central and South American Languages, Oceanic Languages, Prussian, Farsi, Bantu, Uzbek, Welsh, Yiddish, Russian, or Vietnamese, they might have a language resource to help you do a little translating and understanding of a language not your own.
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Alpha Dictionary - Language Dictionary is Issue Number 14 published May 5, 2006, by Lorelle VanFossen. This is just one of many articles found in the Genealogy Resources categories. Lorelle VanFossen writes for a variety of blogs, websites, ezines, and print publications. She also teaches and does a lot of public speaking internationally on photography, writing, blogging, web page design and development, and more. She and her husband and cat(s) travel full-time across North American and the rest of the world by RV, planes, trains, automobiles, and foot, writing and photographing their travels and nature, when they can find it. Lorelle VanFossen has written 231 articles for our our family history blog.
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