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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