languist wrote:I was being slightly hyperbolic - but the list he posted is rather close to the standard lists you would see on somewhere like forvo or indeed omniglot - and I mean, the entire list.
You're right, it doesn't seem like there's any actual criteria in the list and no matter how "collaborative" the efforts or "streamlined" the production is going to be I seriously doubt they even have started contact with speakers of what, every European minority language and Khoekhoegowab and Mingrelian and a handful of Australian languages and every major African language. Yes, we live in a digital globalised world but that kind of coordination needs more funding and people to get done in a year.
Maybe Campbell is suffering from massive wanderlust and these are all the languages he wishes he had good resources for.
This is also kind of suss:
Levantine Arabic [...] Syrian Arabic
What is Levantine, then? Lebanese? Palestinian?
It almost seems like he made a typological sample then added European minority languages and conlangs.