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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- Berber (Kabyle, Tamasheq, Tamazight)
- Chadic (Afaan Oromo, Hausa)
- Cushitic (Somali)
- Egyptian (Coptic)
- Semitic (Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, East Assyrian, Aramaic, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Maltese, 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, Wayuu)
- Aymaran (Aymara)
- Barbacoan (Cha'palaachi)
- Cahuapanan (Chayahuita)
- Cariban (Akurio)
- Guaicuruan (Toba Qom)
- Harakmbut (Amarakaeri)
- Jivaroan (Achuar-Shiwiar, Aguaruna, Candoshi-Shapra)
- Mapuche (Mapuche)
- Panoan (Amahuaca, Kashibo, Kashinawa, Matsés, Shipibo-Conibo, Yaminawa)
- Peba-Yaguan (Yagua)
- Quechuan (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 Callejon de Huaylas, Quechua del Cusco, Quechua del Norte de Junin)
- Tupí-Guarani (Guaraní)
- Witotoan (Bora, Murui Huitoto)
- Zaparoan (Arabela, Záparo)
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- Borneo-Philippine (Bikol, Bushi, Cebuano, Kadazandusun, Kapampangan, Malagasy, Maranao, Rejang, Tagalog, Waray)
- Formosan (Amis)
- Malayo-Polynesian (Acehnese, Balinese, Bugisnese, Chamarro, Indonesian, Jarai, Javanese, Lumpung, Madurese, Malay, Minangkabau, Musi, Sundanese, Tetum)
- Mirconesian (Chuukese, Marshallese, Palauan, Pohnpeian)
- Oceanic (Hawaiian, Māori, Rarotongan, Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, Yapese)
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- (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
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- (Hmong of Northern East-Guizhou, Hmong of Southern East-Guizhou, Hmong of Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan)
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- Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian)
- Celtic (Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Old Irish, Old Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh)
- Germanic (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English,
Faroese, Frisian, Common West Germanic, German, Gothic, Icelandic, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Old English, Old High German, Old Middle German, Proto-Germanic, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish)
- Indo-Iranian (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Khowar, Kurdish, Maithili, Maldivian, Marathi, Nepali, Ossetian, Pashtu, Persian, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Romani, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tadjik, Urdu, Zazaki)
- Italic/Romance (Aragonese, Aromanian, Asturian,
Calabrian, Catalan, Corsican, Emilian-Romagnol/Sammarinese, Frano-Provençal, French, Friulian, Galician, Gallo, Genoese, Italian, Ladino, Latin, Moldovan, Norman, Occitian, Old French, Old Occitan, Picard, Piedmontese, Poitevin-Saintongeais, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sicilian, Spanish, Venetian, Walloon)
- Slavic (Belarussian, Bosnian, Bulgarian,
Croatian, Czech, Kashubian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian,
Sorbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian)
- Other (Albanian, Armenian, Greek, Proto-Indo-European)
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- Atlantic-Congo (Bariba, Edo, Fula, Ibibio, Igbo, Jola-Fonyi, Kulango,Limba, Serer, Temne, Wolof, Yoruba)
- Bantu (Bemba, Beti, Chechewa, Chinyanja, Chokwe, Comorian, Kaonde, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kongo, Lingala, Lozi, Lugala, Luvale, Makonde, Maore, Nkore, Northern Ndebele, Northern Sohto, Nsɔ, Nyamwezi, Nyemba, OshiWamboi, Shona, Siswati, Southern Sotho, Sukuma, Swahili, Swati, Tiv, Tshiluba, Tswana, Umbundu, Venda, Western Sotho, Xhosa, Yao, Zulu)
- Gbe (Aja, Ewe, Fon)
- Gur (Dagaare, Dagbani, Ditammari, Kabiyé, Kasem, Mossi)
- Kwa (Akuapem Twi, Asante, Baoulé, Fante, Ga, Gonja, Guen, Nzema)
- Mande (Bambara, Kpelle, Maninka, Mende, Soninke, Susu, Vai)
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- (Balanda Viri, Bari, Dendi, Kanuri Yerwa, Nuer, Otuho, Shilluk)
- Sinitic / Chinese (Cantonese, Classical Chinese, Gan, Hakka, Judeo-Chinese, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese)
- Tibeto-Burman (Burmese, Dzongkha, Hani, Karen (Pwo), Karen (S'gaw), Manipuri, Mizo, Paite, Tamang, Tibetan, Tujia, Yi)
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- Turkic (Altay, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karachay-Balkar, Kazak, Khakas, Kyrgyz, Shor, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut)
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- (Northern/Tundra Yukaghir)
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- (Basque, Cofán, Japanese, Korean, 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, Folkspraak, Ido, Interlingua, Lingua Franca Nova, Lojban, Volapük)
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- (Deutschen Einheitskurzschrift, Gregg Shorthand, Pitman Shorthand, Shavian)
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- (Cilthic, Deseret, Ihav Sabeired, Kabena'o, Languan, Rotor script, Tengwar, Üqoi, VEC, Vijyal)
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Sources
http://www.ohchr.org/en/udhr/pages/introduction.aspx
http://unicode.org/udhr/assemblies/first_article_all.html
http://www.eurominority.org
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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
https://udhr.audio/
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