Wait, is this just natural languages, or fictional too?
Can I bring up Klingon again? ;-)
Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
>
> >If you want to have a list of all languages in all languages you might
> also
> >consider all countries in all languages as well if you are picking
> locales.
>
> Don't you really want all language names in all writing systems? The number
> of known living languages is 6800+. Fortunately for you, less than half are
> written, but some languages have multiple writing systems corresponding to
> different scripts. Let's say there are 2500 writing systems (probably not
> far off). That's 6800 x 2500 = 17,000,000. Are you really sure you want a
> list that long? The page would take a while to load. :-)
>
> - Peter
>
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