Language Contact

Description

Language Contact is a dictionary made for and by people. It's a sort of worldwide "false friends" dictionary. It's an open project, everyone can contribute adding words or correcting any mistakes.

In a multicultural environment, it happens very often to listen languages that we don't know. If we try to pay attention to those unknown sounds, it seems that our ears are trying to shape them, in order to understand what people are saying. Of course, if we are not able to speak a language, we can either to guess what people are really saying or, maybe, we can play with the sound and make it similar to our own language or other languages that we know, in order to make sense of it or twist the real meaning of the conversation.

Sometimes it's interesting to compare different words in different languages, even if they don't really seem to have something in common. Occasionally, we have words in different languages that are pronounced in a similar way, even if they are written differently AND sometimes words are written in a similar way, but the pronunciation is different. This project could be a funny way to see how different and similar languages can be, simultaneously. Let's think about this as an amusing game.