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Index

Abha Arabic
Afrikaans
Amarisi
Ambel
American English
American English: Southern Michigan
Amharic
Arabic
Arabic dialect of Gaza City
Armenian (Yerevan Eastern Armenian and Beirut Western Armenian)
Armenian (Yerevan Eastern Armenian and Beirut Western Armenian)
Assamese
Australian English
Azerbaijani
A’ingae (Cofán)
Baima
Bardi
Basaá
Belarusian
Belgian Standard Dutch
Bemba
Bengali (Bangladeshi Standard)
Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Veneto (Talian)
British English: Received Pronunciation
Brunei Malay
Brunei Malay
Brunei Malay
Brunei Malay
Brunei Malay
Bukharan Tajik
Bulgarian
Burmese
Béarnais (Gascon)
Cagliari Sardinian
Castilian Spanish
Catalan
Central Arrernte
Central Lisu
Central Malagasy
Central Sama
Central Sama
Central Sama
Central Sama
Changsha Xiang Chinese
Chicahuaxtla Triqui
Chickasaw
Chinese (Hong Kong Cantonese)
Chistabino (Pyrenean Aragonese)
Chukchansi Yokuts
Cicipu
Cocos Malay
Cocos Malay
Cocos Malay
Croatian
Cwyzhy Abkhaz
Cypriot Greek
Czech
Czech spoken in Bohemia and Moravia
Danish
Dari (Afghan Persian)
Dutch
Dàgáárè (Central)
Eastern Andalusian Spanish
Ega
Ende
Ersu
Estonian
European Portuguese
Fataluku
French
Friulian
Galician
Garifuna
Gayo
German
Gitskan
Goemai
Goizueta Basque
Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane
Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane
Hakka Chinese
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hefei Mandarin
Hindi
Hmu (Xinzhai variety)
Huangyan Taizhou
Hungarian
Ibibio
Ibibio
Igbo
Ika Igbo
Indonesian
Indonesian Bajau (East Lombok)
Irish
Istanbul Judeo-Spanish
Isthmus (Juchitán) Zapotec
Italian
Itunyoso Trique
Ja’a Kumiai
Jamaican Creole
Japanese
Japhug
Jianchuan Bai
Jicarilla Apache
Kabiye
Kabiye
Kabiye
Kalabari-Ijo
Kalasha (Bumburet variety) 
Kazakh
Kedayan
Kedayan
Kedayan
Kejom (Babanki)
Kera
Khongso
Khowar
Khuzestani Arabic
Korean
Kumzari
Kunama
Kéo
Ladin, varieties of Val di Fassa
Lili Wu Chinese
Liverpool English
Lizu
Luanyjang Dinka
Lusoga (Lutenga)
Luxembourgish
Lyonnais (Francoprovençal)
Madurese
Mah Meri
Makasar
Malacca Portuguese Creole
Malayalam
Malayam (Namboodiri Dialect)
Mambay
Mapudungun
Mapudungun
Mapudungun
Mapudungun
Markina Basque
Mavea
Mbarrumbathama (Lamalama)
Mecapalapa Tepehua
Mennonite Plautdietsch (Canadian Old Colony)
Mojeño Trinitario
Mono
Mono Lake Northern Paiute
Munji
Murcian Spanish
Nafsan
Nara
Nen
Nepali
New Zealand English
Niuean
Nivaĉle (shichaam lhavos variety)
Northern Tepehuan
Northern Tosk Albanian
Northern Welsh
Northwest Sahaptin
Northwest Sahaptin
Nuer
Nuosu Yi
Nuuchahnulth
Palula
Persian
Philippine English
Pitjantjatjara
Polish
Punjabi (Lyallpuri variety)
Qaqet
Russian
Salasaca Quichua
San Sebastian del Monte Mixtec
Sandawe
Saraiki Sokar
Sasak Meno-Mené dialect
Saterland Frisian
Scottish Gaelic
Seenku
Seri
Setswana (South African)
Shanghai Chinese
Shawi (Chayahuita)
Shilluk
Shipibo
Shiwilu (Jebero)
Sindhi
Slovak
Slovene
Southeastern Pashayi
Southern Tati: Takestani dialect
Spokane
Standard Austrian German
Standard Chinese (Beijing)
Standard Georgian
Standard Lithuanian
Standard Malay (Brunei)
Standard Modern Greek
Standard Yiddish
Sumi (Sema)
Swedish
Taba
Tamambo
Tamil
Tashlhiyt Berber
Tausung (Suluk)
Tausung (Suluk)
Telugu
Telugu
Temne
Tena Quichua
Tera
Thai
The Belgian Limburg dialect of Hamont
The Dutch dialect of Weert
The Flemish-Brabant dialect of Orsmaal-Gussenhoven
The dialect of Hasselt
The sound pattern of Standard Italian, as compared with the varieties spoken in Florence, Milan and Rome
Tianjin Mandarin
Tilquiapan Zapotec
Tima
Tongan
Trapezountian Pontic Greek
Tukang Besi
Turkish
Tyneside English
Ukrainian
Umbuygamu
Upper Saxon (Chemnitz dialect)
Upper Sorbian
Upper-Chambira Urarina
Vietnamese (Hanoi Vietnamese)
Xiangxiang dialect of Chinese
Xumi (part 1): Lower Xumi, the variety of the lower and middle reaches of the Shuiluo river
Xumi (part 2): Upper Xumi, the variety of the upper reaches of the Shuiluo river
Yine
Zhushan Mandarin
Zurich German
Zwara (Zuwārah) Berber