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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="vieport" content="">
<title>Home | Endangered Languages Dictionary</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/Endangered-Languages-Dictionary/styles.css">
<script src="/Endangered-Languages-Dictionary/langs.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<h1 id="website-header">Endangered Language Dictionary</h1>
<div class="nav">
<nav class="nav-header">
<a href="/Endangered-Languages-Dictionary/index.en.html">Home</a>
| <a href="/Endangered-Languages-Dictionary/search.en.html">Search</a>
| <a href="/Endangered-Languages-Dictionary/about.en.html">About this site</a>
| Choose language:
<select name="langs" title="Choose language">
<option value="pl">Polski</option>
<option value="en">English</option>
<option value="de">Deutsch</option>
<option value="es">Español</option>
</select>
<button type="submit" id="lang-submit" onclick="changeLang('en');">Submit</button>
</nav>
</div>
</div>
<p>(this content is also available in Markdown format: <a href="github.com/ankiedos/Endangered-Languages-Dictionary/blob/main/README.en.md">github.com/ankiedos/Endangered-Languages-Dictionary/blob/main/README.en.md</a>)</p>
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:
<ul id="langs">
<li>(x) Kashubian</li>
<li>() Lower Sorbian</li>
<li>() Upper Sorbian (though it is gaining popularity among the descendants of the native speakers nowadays)</li>
<li>() Rusyn</li>
<li>() Wymysiöeryś (Vilamovian)</li>
<li>() Yiddish</li>
<li>() Ainu</li>
<li>() Manchu</li>
<li>() a lot of Caucasian languages</li>
<li>() and many more...</li>
</ul>
Apart from that, this website is going to be available in different languages. Here's a list of ready & planned:
<ul id="translations">
<li>(x) English</li>
<li>(x) Polish</li>
<li>() Spanish</li>
<li>() German</li>
<li>() Ukrainian</li>
<li>() Those which the dictionary has phrases in</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="stylisation">Why there are such white & not much styled webpages?!!</h1>
<p>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.</p>
Therefore, it does not depend heavily on stylesheets. I hope this is understandable.<br>
<h1 id="development">Any plans on extending this?</h1>
Yes. The plan is to create a vortal about languages. A detailed roadmap follows:
<ul>
<li>Assign definitions to various translations of entries</li>
<li>Create lessons & excercises on the languages handled by the dictionary</li>
<li>Extend this website so that the previous version will be just a section</li>
<ul>
<li>Sections for auxiliary, research, logical & philosophical, artistic, and other constructed languages</li>
<li>Sections for natural languages, differentiated by the families they belong to</li>
<li>Sections for pidgins and creoles</li>
</ul>
<li>Create resources on linguistics, especially phonetics & IPA</li>
<li>Create resources about cultures of the world</li>
<li>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</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
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<h3 id="author">About the author</h3>
<p>
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.
</p>
</body>
</html>