 Ich begrüße alle User zu dieser Webseite. Ich begrüße alle User zu dieser Webseite. Ich begrüße alle User zu dieser Webseite. Ich begrüße alle User zu dieser Webseite. Ich begrüße alle User zu dieser Webseite. Mein Name ist Jürgen Handke und ich spreche Deutsch. Hallo! Hast du ever wondered, warum foreign languages so different from your own? Or what sounds their speakers produce? Or how they say the big book in their language? How do you know, what languages are used in your neighbourhood? For example, in Germany or in Jamaica or are you doing linguistic research let's say by exploring the sound system of a language. Well in all these cases the virtual linguistics campus language index is a suitable starting point. Our mission is to capture the richness of the world's language and to understand the richer the richness of the world's languages and to make it accessible to anyone interested in science and beyond. And since the language index is part of the virtual linguistics campus all VLC courses and repositories make plenty of use of its samples and data. Well and here is what you can do with the language index. If you are logged in to the virtual linguistics campus you can explore all samples that are part of the language index database via mouse click. Currently the language index hosts 125 different languages and about 50 dialect entries with structured audio data. Structured audio data means that the same dataset has been recorded cross linguistically by our speakers. So instead of presenting just languages in general the language index presents languages with their speakers. Accessing them is simple you need a VLC account which is of course free and can then load a language via an interactive map and its clickable pins one for each language via pulldown lists or via the complete language index glossary itself. And all data that is audio files in the mp3 format and written data sheets as PDF can be downloaded and freely be used. For example for further linguistic research or for use on linguistic websites. And like Rakip from Bangladesh or Yusuf from Cairo to name just two of many you can become a contributor. Record yourself and follow the instructions on our datasheet. The rest will be managed by the VLC team and for your effort you will receive a VLC contributors certificate. Let's now look at an entry and its options. Here is Georgian as an example. Each entry first presents some general information including the family membership and some typological details plus the information about the speaker. This includes a standardized welcoming message. This message is followed by the interactive audio sample for example the numbers from 1 to 10. 3 4 5 6 7 7 7 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9