Three progress tracks
Language translations, dialect editions, and Braille or transmission editions have separate totals. A language can appear in several geographical collections, but contributes only once to the global language count. A Braille, audio, or Morse presentation does not create a new language.
Completion and scope
Completion is reviewed, published items divided by the approved target list for the selected track. No target list has yet been approved. One AI-assisted Spanish teaching draft has been prepared and has not received independent review. No translations have been published. Until that changes, progress is shown as “Scope under review.” The English original does not increase the translated total.
The research catalogs
Glottolog 5.3 supplies 7,674 spoken L1 language records and 13,706 dialect records, with additional sign-language and special categories retained in the research package. Its downloadable tree has 238 genealogical family roots, 183 isolates and eight special top-level buckets. Its dialect coverage contains known inconsistencies; it is a research starting point, not an exhaustive dialect census.
The Conlang Database supplies 2,181 source records. Fictional-world groupings currently have a six-language starter crosswalk. The full catalog remains available; records still need identity, alias and feasibility checks.
SIL langtags provides 129 non-bookkeeping Glottolog records with active, unflagged Braille metadata in our join. That is a candidate list, not 129 verified Braille editions. World Braille Usage’s separate 133-language figure describes its 2013 reference coverage.
Maps are browsing aids
Country associations are catalog metadata, not a census of every language spoken in a country. US state membership is currently inferred from representative catalog coordinates falling inside state boundaries. Those coordinates may represent historical or reference locations and do not trace a language’s territory. Country listings retain languages whose reference points fall elsewhere.
Fictional languages and scripts
Klingon belongs in the Star Trek collection. Quenya and Sindarin have distinct entries under Middle-earth. Tolkien-attested vocabulary and later Neo-language reconstruction must be labeled. A script such as Tengwar is an edition attribute, not another translated language.
Before publication
Verify the variety, writing conventions, adequate grammar and vocabulary, and a credible review path. Each complete poem page will carry its language name, source text, translator and reviewer credits, version, editorial notes, and links back to the project. Incomplete and unreviewed entries are not presented as published translations.
Sources
- Glottolog 5.3 downloads · Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath & Bank (2026), CC BY 4.0
- Glottolog classification and location methods
- Conlang Database
- SIL langtags · metadata dated October 20, 2026 · MIT license included
- World Braille Usage
- Unified English Braille
- World map boundaries · US state boundaries · CLDR regional groupings
This is a local project draft. It has not been added to the live Crypt of Echoes site. Candidate datasets need editorial and redistribution review before public deployment.