Omniglot projects and research

This page contains details of projects and research currently being undertaken at Omniglot, or by friends of Omniglot.

Multilingual clock

I am collecting translations of time expressions, and plan to use them to construct a multilingual clock which will show you how to tell the time in as many languages as possible, similar to the one here. This spreadsheet contains all the translations collected so far. I also have recordings of the Catalan phrases.

Can you help by sending translations and/or recordings?

The recordings don't have to be of every phrase in the spreadsheet, but of enough parts of phrases so that I’ll be able to splice them together. Please contact me if you can help.

Colours

I am collecting colour words in as many languages as possible for this section of Omniglot. So it would be really helpful if you could send me all the colour words you know in your language(s).

It would be interesting if you could also indicate:

Which of the colour words are most commonly used
Whether any of them represent different colours than the English words
Whether any of them have special signicance in your culture, e.g. white for weddings and purity, green for envy, yellow for cowardice, etc.
Any interesting proverbs, sayings or other idiomatic expressions involving colours you know in your language(s).

There are currently individual pages about colours in the following languages:
Afrikaans, Arabic, Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Spanish, Tuvaluan, Vietnamese and Xhosa

Other ways you can contribute to Omniglot

DirectRooms provides discount hotels worldwide all with a low price guarantee