Article 1 of the UDHR

This section contains versions of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 549 languages. They are grouped into language families so that you can see the similarities and differences between them. In some cases, like the languages of North and South America where there are many different languages families, some language families are grouped together.

Hear is the text in English:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Language families

Afroasiatic, Languages of North America, Languages of South America, Australian, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Caucasian, Dravidian, Hmong-Mien, Indo-European, Japonic, Koreanic, Mongolic, Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, Tungusic, Turkic, Uralic, Yukaghir, Language Isolates, Sign Languages, Pidgins and Creoles, International Auxiliary Languages, Alternative writing systems, Constructed languages and alphabets


Afroasiatic languages

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Languages of North America

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Languages of South America

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Languages of Australia

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Austro-Asiatic languages

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Austronesian languages

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Caucasian languages

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Dravidian languages

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Hmong-Mien languages

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Indo-European languages

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Japonic languages

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Koreanic languages

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Mongolic languages

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Niger-Congo languages

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Nilo-Saharan languages


Sino-Tibetan languages

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Tai-Kaidai

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Tungusic languages

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Turkic languages

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Uralic languages

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Yukaghir languages

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Language Isolates


Sign Languages

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Pidgins and Creoles

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International Auxiliary Languages (IALS)

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Alternative writing systems

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Constructed/fictional languages and alphabets

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Fonts

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Other languages

Can you provide translations of this text into any languages not listed here and not on www.unhchr.ch/udhr/? If you can, please contact me.

Recordings

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Sources

http://www.ohchr.org/en/udhr/pages/introduction.aspx
http://unicode.org/udhr/assemblies/first_article_all.html
http://www.eurominority.org
http://www.unicode.org/udhr/assemblies/first_article_all.html

See the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in two different languages side by side at: http://www.lexilogos.com/declaration/

Recordings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a number of languages
https://udhr.audio/
http://www.archive.org/details/universal_declaration_librivox

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