"The poets made all the words, and therefore language is the archives of history" -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: "The Poet".
Kia Ora!
This database contains 349,424 lexical items from 1,982 languages spoken throughout the Pacific region. Most of these languages belong to the Austronesian language family, which is the largest family in the world containing around 1,200 languages.
Each language in our database has around 210 words associated with it. These words correspond to basic items of vocabulary, such as simple verbs like 'to walk', or 'to fly', the names of body parts like hand or mouth, colors like red, numbers (1, 2, 3, 4) and kinship terms such as Mother, Father and Person. The full list is here.