Article 1 of the UDHR
This section contains versions of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 560 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
- Berber (Kabyle, Tamasheq, Tamazight)
- Chadic (Hausa)
- Cushitic (Afar, Af Marka, Maay Maay, Oromo, Sidama, Somali)
- Egyptian (Coptic)
- Omotic (Kafa)
- Semitic (Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, East Assyrian, Aramaic, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Maltese, Phoenician, Pre-Babylonian Biblical Hebrew, Tigre, Tigrinya)
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- Eskimo-Aleut (Aleut, Greenlandic, Inuktitut)
- Algonquian (Arapaho, Cree, Mi'kmaq, Ojibwe)
- Iroquoian (Cherokee)
- Na-Dene (Navajo)
- Muskogean (Chickasaw)
- Salishan (Lushootseed)
- Siouan (Lakota)
- Oto-Manguean (Chinanteco, Mazahua, Mazatec, Mixtec, Otomi, Zapotec)
- Uto-Aztecan (Nahuatl, Pipil)
- Mayan (Huasteco, Kaqchikel, Mam, Q'eqchi', Tojol-a'b'al, Tsotsil, Tzeltal, Yacatec Maya)
- Misumalpan (Miskito)
- Tarascan (Purhépecha)
- Zoquean (Totonaco)
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- Arawakan (Amuesha-Yanesha, Asháninka, Ashéninka Perené, Ashéninca Pichis, Caquinte, Garifuna, Nomatsiguenga, Taíno, Wayuu)
- Aymaran (Aymara)
- Barbacoan (Cha'palaachi)
- Cahuapanan (Chayahuita)
- Cariban (Akurio)
- Chocoan (Eperara)
- Guaicuruan (Toba Qom)
- Harakmbut (Amarakaeri)
- Jivaroan (Achuar-Shiwiar, Aguaruna, Candoshi-Shapra)
- Mapuche (Mapuche)
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Mixe-Zoque (Totontepec Mixe)
- Panoan (Amahuaca, Kashibo, Kashinawa, Matsés, Shipibo-Conibo, Yaminawa)
- Peba-Yaguan (Yagua)
- Quechuan (Ancash Quechua, Ayacucho Quechua, Kichwa, Quechua, Quechua de Ambo-Pasco, Quechua de Cajamarca, Quechua de Cotahuasi, Quechua de Huamalies, Quechua de Margos, Quechua de Pomabamba, Quechua del Cusco, Quechua del Norte de Junin)
- Tucanan (Ese Ejja)
- Tucanoan (Ecuadarioan Siona)
- Tupí-Guarani (Guaraní)
- Witotoan (Bora, Murui Huitoto)
- Yanomam (Yanomamö)
- Zamucoan (Ayoreo)
- Zaparoan (Arabela, Záparo)
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- Mon-Khmer (Khasi, Khmer, Krung, Vietnamese)
- Munda (Bhumij, Ho, Kharia, Mundari, Santali)
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- Borneo-Philippine (Bikol, Bushi, Cebuano, Kadazandusun, Kapampangan, Malagasy, Maranao, Rejang, Tagalog, Waray)
- Batak (Toba Batak)
- Chamic (Acehnese)
- Formosan (Amis)
- Malayo-Polynesian (Balinese, Banjarese, Bugisnese, Chamarro, Indonesian, Kerinci, Komering, Jarai, Javanese, Lumpung, Madurese, Malay, Minangkabau, Musi, Ogan, Sundanese, Tetum)
- Mirconesian (Chuukese, Marshallese, Palauan, Pohnpeian)
- Oceanic (Yapese)
- Polynesian (Hawaiian, Māori, Rarotongan, Samoan, Tahitian, Tokelauan, Tongan)
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- (Kannada, Kurukh, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
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- Proto-Indo-European
- Albanian (Tosk, Gheg)
- Armenian (Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian)
- Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian)
- Celtic (Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Old Irish, Old Welsh, Proto-Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh)
- Germanic (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian (North, West, East and Saterland), German, Gothic, Icelandic, Low German, Luxembourgish, Middle English, Middle High German, North Low Saxon, Norwegian, Old English, Old High German, Old Middle German, Old Norse, Old East Norse, Old Saxon, Old Swedish, Proto-Germanic, Scots, Swedish, Swiss German, Värmlandic, Yiddish)
- Hellenic (Greek, Polytonic Greek)
- Indo-Iranian (Angika, Assamese, Baluchi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Chakma, Chhattisgarhi, Chittagonian, Danwar, Dari, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannauji, Kashmiri, Khowar, Kurdish, Kurmali, Magadhi, Maithili, Maldivian, Marathi, Marwari, Nepali, Odia, Ossetian, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Rangpuri, Rohingya, Romani, Sanskrit, Sarnámi Hindustani, Shabaki, Sinhala, Sylheti, Tadjik, Urdu, Wancho, Zazaki)
- Italic (Latin (Old/Archaic, Classical, Vulgar), Proto-Italic)
- Romance (Aragonese, Aromanian, Asturian, Auvergnat, Berrichon, Bourbonnais, Burgundian, Calabrian, Catalan, Corsican, Emilian-Romagnol/Sammarinese, Frainc-Comtou, Franco-Provençal, French, Friulian, Galician, Gallo, Gascon, Genoese, Italian, Ladin, Ladino, Mirandese, Moldovan, Neapolitan, Norman, Occitian, Old French, Old Occitan, Picard, Piedmontese, Poitevin-Saintongeais, Portuguese, Provençal, Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sicilian, Spanish, Tourangeau, Valencian, Venetian, Walloon)
- Slavic (Belarussian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Kashubian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic / Old Russian, Polish, Proto-Slavic, Russian, Serbian, Sorbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian)
- Tocharian (Tocharian B)
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- Atlantic-Congo (Bamum, Bariba, Edo, Fula, Fulfulde, Ibibio, Igbo, Jola-Fonyi, Kulango, Peuhl, Limba, Serer, Temne, Wolof, Yoruba)
- Bantoid (Nso, Tiv)
- Bantu (Bemba, Beti, Chechewa, Chinyanja, Chokwe, Comorian, Ibinda, Kaonde, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kongo, Lingala, Lozi, Lugala, Luvale, Makonde, Maore, Nkore, Northern Ndebele, Northern Sohto, Nyamwezi, Nyemba, OshiWamboi, Shona, Siswati, Southern Sotho, Sukuma, Swahili, Swati, Tshiluba, Tswana, Umbundu, Venda, Western Sotho, Xhosa, Yao, Zulu)
- Gbe (Aja, Ewe, Fon)
- Gur (Dagaare, Dagbani, Ditammari, Kabiyé, Kasem, Mossi, Tem, Waama)
- Kwa (Akuapem Twi, Asante, Baoulé, Dangme Fante, Ga, Gonja, Guen, Nzema)
- Mande (Bambara, Kpelle, Maninka, Mende, Soninke, Susu, Vai)
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- (Balanda Viri, Bari, Dendi, Gumuz, Kanuri Yerwa, Maasai, Nuer, Otuho, Shilluk, Uduk, Zarma)
- Brahmaputran (Bodo, Kokborok)
- Chinese (Sinitic ) (Cantonese, Classical Chinese, Gan, Hakka, Jin, Judeo-Chinese, Mandarin, Minjiang, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Taiwanese Hakka)
- Greater Magaric (Eastern Parbate Kham)
- Kiranti (Bantawa, Chamling, Dhimal, Yakkha)
- Kuki-Chin-Naga (Ao, Karbi, Manipuri)
- Newaric (Thangmi)
- Tamangic (Chhantyal, Eastern Tamang, Thakali)
- Tani (Mising)
- Tibeto-Burman (Bizisa, Burmese, Dzongkha, Hakha (Chin), Hani, Jirel, Karen (Pwo), Karen (S'gaw), Manipuri, Mizo, Newar, Pahari, Paite, Sherpa, Tibetan, Tujia, Yi)
- Tujia (Mijisa)
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- (Gelao, Khün, Lao, Thai, Yang Zhuang, Zhuang)
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- Turkic (Altay, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khakas, Kyrgyz, Nogai, Romanian Tatar, Shor, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut)
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- (Northern/Tundra Yukaghir)
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- (Basque, Cofán, Kusunda, Páez, Ticuna, Urarina)
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- English-based Creoles (Bislama, Nigerian Pidgin English, Sierra Leonean Creole, Solomons Pidgin, Sranan, Tok Pisin)
- French-based Creoles (French Guianese Creole, Guadeloupean Creole, Haitian Creole, Martinican Creole, Mauritian Creole, Réunion Creole, Saint Lucian Creole, Seychelles Creole)
- Portuguese-based Creoles (Cape Verdean Creole, Guinea-Bissau Creole)
- Spanish-based Creoles (Chavacano)
- Other Creoles (Kituba, Papiamento, Sango)
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- (Esperanto, Europeze, Folkspraak, Ido, Interlingua, Lingua Franca Nova, Lojban, Neolatin, Uropi, Volapük)
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- (Deutschen Einheitskurzschrift, Gregg Shorthand, Pitman Shorthand, Shavian)
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- (Anglish, Cilthic, Deseret, Ihav Sabeired, Kabena'o, Klingon, Languan, Rotor script, Tengwar, Üqoi, VEC, Vijyal)
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http://unicode.org/udhr/assemblies/first_article_all.html
http://www.eurominority.org
http://www.unicode.org/udhr/assemblies/first_article_all.html
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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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