Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1)

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.

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Language families

Afroasiatic (Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Hausa, Hebrew, Kabyle, Maltese, Somali, Tamazight, Tigrinya)

Languages of North America (Cakchiquel, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chinanteco, Cree, Greenlandic Inuktitut, Huasteco, Mam, Mazahua, Mazatec, Mi'kmaq, Miskito, Nahuatl, Navajo, Ojibwe, Otomi, Pipil, Purhépecha, Q'echi, Tojol-a'b'al, Totonaco, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Wama, Yacatec, Zapoteco)

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Austro-Asiatic (Khmer, Vietnamese)

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Dravidian (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)

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Indo-European

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Nilo-Saharan (Dendi, Kanuri Yerwa)

Caucasian (Abkhaz, Georgian)

Tai-Kaidai (Lao, Thai, Zhuang)

Sino-Tibetan (Burmese, Chinese, Cantonese, Dzongkha, Hani, Karen, Tamang, Tibetan)

Uralic (Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Saami, Voro)

Yukaghir (Northern/Tundra Yukaghir)

Isolates (Basque, Japanese, Korean, Páez, Urarina)

Pidgins and Creoles (Bichelamar, Haitian Creole, Kituba, Krio, Nigerian Pidgin English, Sango, Seychelles Creole, Solomons Pidgin, Tok Pisin)

International Auxiliary Languages (IALS) (Esperanto, Folkspraak, Ido, Interlingua, Lingua Franca Nova, Lojban)

Constructed languages/alphabets (Cilthic, Deseret, Ihav Sabeired, Kabena'o, Languan, Lojban, Shavian, Tengwar, Üqoi, Vijyal)

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Sources

http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/
http://www.eurominority.org

See the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in two different languages side by side at: http://www.lexilogos.com/declaration/

Recordings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a number of languages
http://www.archive.org/details/universal_declaration_librivox

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