SO MANY LANGUAGES, SO LITTLE TIME
Here are the translations to my favorite phrase, "So many languages,
so little time"

ALTAIC

• Turkic
• Turkish
• Turkish: Bír sürü díl, çok az zaman

AFRO-ASIATIC

• Semitic
• South
• Arabic
• Moroccan Arabic: Bazzaf d-lughat, we shwiyya del weqt
• Standard Arabic: Ma: ?aktharara lluRa:T

• Cananite
• Hebrew: Kol kax harbe safot, kol kax meat zman

AUSTRO-ASIATIC

• Mon-Khmer
• Viet-Muong
• Vietnamese
• Vietnamese: sinh ngu qua nhieu, thoi gian qua it

AUSTRONESIAN

• Formosan
• Paiwanic
• Paiwan: liaw a lavalan aitsaquanan, gataq likicha chanashi
• Malayo-Polynesian
• Western Malayo-Polynesian
• Chamorro: Meggai na finiho', kadada' na tiempo
• Meso-Philippine
• Central Philippine
• Tagalog
• Tagalog: Napakaraming wika', napakaikli' nang panahon
• Northern Philippine
• Northern Luzon
• Ilocano
• Ilocano: Nakaad-adu a pagasao, bassit unay ti tiempo
• Sulawesi
• Muna-Buton
• Buton
• Tukang Besi: Okoruo na pogauno, omelampa na wakutuuno
• Sundic
• Javanese (low level): Kakehan basa, kurang wektu
• Javanese (high level): Kekathahen basa, kirang wekdal
• Malayic
• Malay-Moklen
• Malayan
• Local-Malay
• Indonesian: Alangkah banyak bahasa, alangkah sedikit waktu
• Malay: Terlalu banyak bahasa, terlalu sedikit masa
• Sundanese
• Sundanese: Sakitu seueur bahasa, waktos, na sakadit
• Yapese
• Yapese: Boor e thin ma buchuuw e time
• Central-Eastern
• Central Malayo-Polynesian
• Bima-Sumba
• Kambera: Lalu dangu da hilu, lalu kababa na rehi
• Timor-Flores
• Timor
• Leti-Moa
• Leti: Lera tantutukpo tkillia lirnaututnu emsode
• Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
• Oceanic
• Milne Bay-Central Province
• Milne Bay
• Western
• Kilivila
• Kilivila: Sena budubadu biga, sena pikekita tuta
• Southern Vanuatu
• Tanna
• Kwamera: Nagkiariien me hapuk, nepen rukwakwa
• Remote Oceanic
• Central-Pacific
• Micronesian
• Micronesian Proper
• Ikiribati
• Kiribati: E tiraua te taetae, ma e ua rereke te tai
• Marshallese
• Marshallese: Elon kajin ak ejumej etali
• Rotuman-Fijian
• Fijian
• East Fijian
• Fijian: Sa: rui levu na duivosavosa, sa: rui lailai ga: gauna
• Polynesian
• Tongic
• Tongan: Lahi a'e ngaahi le'a 'i he ki'i taimi si'i
• Niuean: To lahi loga e tau vagahau kehekehe, kae ku:ku e tau magaaho
• Nuclear
• Samoic-Outlier
• Samoan
• Samoan: E tele gagana, ae leai se taimi
• Tuvaluan: Ko te uke a gana, mutana te taimi
• Central
• Marquesic
• Hawaiian: 'A'ole 'o kana mai na: 'o:lelo 'oiwi, 'a'ole na'e lawa ka manawa e pa'a pau loa ai
• Marquesas (southern): Mea nui te tau 'eo, mea kaiu te taime
• Tahitic
• Maori: Te tirio nui o nga: reo, te potopoto o te wa
• Pa'umotu (lang. of Tuamotu): Ua rau te huru rekoreko, ua korereka ra te taime
• Cook Islands Maori: Ma'ata tikai te reo, i roto i te taime poto
• Tahiti: Ua rahi te mau reo, are'a ra ua poto te taime

BASQUE

• Basque: Hainbeste hizkutza, hain denbora gut

DAIC

• Southwestern
• East Central
• Chiang-Saeng
• Thai: Phaasa maak jaang, weelaa nOOy jang

INDO-EUROPEAN

• Germanic
• North
• East Scandinavian
• Danish: Så mange spraak så lidt tid
• Swedish: Så manga språk så lite tid
• West Scandinavian
• Norwegian: Så mange språk, så liten tid
• West
• Continental
• High
• German: So viele Sprachen, so wenig Zeit
• Luxembourgian: Sou vill sproochen, sou weineg Zait
• Yiddish: Azoy fil leshoynes, azoy veynik tsayt
• Low
• Afrikaans: So baie tale, so min tyd
• Dutch: Zo veel talen, zo weinig tijd
• North Sea
• English
• English: So many languages, so little time

• Indo-Iranian
• Indo-Aryan
• Central Zone
• Western Hindi
• Hindustani
• Hindi/Urdu: Kitni zia:da zaba:ne, kitna thora: wakt
• Iranian
• Eastern
• Southeastern
• Pashto
• Pashto: Tsona dere zabe, tsona kam waxt
• Western
• Southwestern
• Persian
• Persian: Ce qadr zia:d zaba:nha:, ce qadr waXt-e kam
• Italic
• Latino-Faliscan
• Latin: tot linguae, parum temporis
• Romance
• Eastern
• North
• Romanian: Asa de multe limbi, asa de putin timp
• Italo-Western
• Romance
• Italian: Cosí tante lingue, cosí poco tempo
• Gallo-Romance
• North
• French: Tellement de langues mais si peu de temps
• Picard (vernacular lang. of N. France): Sitan gramen d'lanwes, foke sitan pau d'tan
• Ibero-Romance
• North
• Central
• Spanish: Tantas lenguas, preo tan poco tiempo
• Eastern
• Catalan: Tantes llengues, i tant poc temps
• Western
• Galician: Tantas linguas, tan pouco tempo
• Portuguese(Iberian&Brazilian): Tantas línguas, tão pouco tempo
• Slavic
• East
• Russian: Tak mnogo jazykov, tak malo vremeni
• South
• Eastern
• Bulgarian: Tolkova mnogo ezici, tolkova malko vreme
• Western
• Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: Toliko jezkia, a tako malo vremena
• Slovenian: Toliko jezkov, a tako malo casa

• West
• Czech-Slovak
• Czech: Tolik jazyku:, a tak ma:lo casu
• Slovak: Tak velá jazykov, tak málo casu
• Lechitic
• Polish: Tak wiele jezyków, tak malo czasu

JAPANESE

• Japanese: Gengo ooshi, jinsei mijikashi

NIGER-CONGO

• Atlantic-Congo
• Ijoid
• Eastern
• Northeastern
• Ibani-Okrita-Kalabari
• Kalabari: Towan bibi, kuma saki oforii

• Volta-Congo
• Benue-Congo
• Bantoid
• Southern
• Narrow-Bantu
• Central
• G
• Swahili
• Swahili: Lugha nyingi, nafasi, kidogo

PAPUAN LANGUAGES

*NOTE* Also known as Non-Austronesian languages.  This
area of the world is known as the most linguistically complex part of 
the world.  These two languages are not in the same family.  But because
they are in the spoken in the same geographical region, being langauges
found in Papua New Guinea, I have collapsed them together under the
heading, Papuan languages.

East Papuan


Yele-Solomons-New Britain

New Britain

Anêm

Anêm: Aiau! Amae lê buno ba!  Megenit megenit a emigê
bis?

Oirata






Trans-New Guinea

South Bird's Head-Timor-Alor-Pantar

Timor-Alor-Pantar

Oirata

Oirata: Lukun lapan wadu halin naha na

PIDGINS & CREOLES

• HCE (Hawai'i Creole English - better known as 'Pidgin English'): Chok languages, no mo' taim
• Seselwa: I ana en kantite langaz, napa boku letan
• Reunion mais (Reunion Creole): Na in bonpe (d')langaz, me in tipe (d')tan

SINO-TIBETAN

• Chinese
• Cantonese: Tai dua yu yin, Tai siu sie gan
• Mandarin (numerals=tone): ru2 tsi3 duo1 de yu3 yan2, ru2 tsi3 shao3 de shi2 jian1
• Taiwanese: Hiah choe gigian, hiah chio sikan

URALIC

• Finno-Urgic
• Finno-Cheremic
• Finno-Mordivinic
• Finno-Lappic
• Balto-Finnic
• Finnish
• Finnish: Niin paljon kieliä, niin vähän aikaa

*BONUS*

• Esperanto: Tiel multe da ling voj, tiel malmulte da tempo
• Klingon: law' Holmey, yapbe' poH

WHAT!? You didn't know that Klingon was an actual
language.  Then you'd better click here to learn
more about the language.   

Thanks to all those who contributed.

For comments and feedback e-mail: rutter@hawaii.edu

Subgrouping of languages according to Ethnologue Thirteenth Edtion (Grimes
1996)