Welcome to the Aesop Language Bank!
Here you can listen to languages from all over the world, compare them and learn more about them.
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Why ‘Aesop’?
The Greek fabulist Aesop wrote a short story about the fight between the North Wind and the Sun, which has often been employed within linguistic research as a sample text. All language and dialect samples in this bank use translations of the same original text, so you can easily compare.
Contributions by enthousiasts
This is a non-profit and voluntary project. All contributions have been made on voluntary basis by enthusiasts. All living languages have been recorded by native speakers, the dead languages by people who have studies them thoroughly.
The Aesop Language Bank is open for new contributions of languages still missing in the list. Is your native language or dialect missing? Why don’t you contribute - write us a message for instructions.