Show HN: The Wide Language Index

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You need to seed the dataset with samples before promoting this site. I just went to the webpage, typed "English" then "Chinese" into the search bar, both times: "There are no samples of this language in our dataset."

Thanks for letting me know. The data's there, it's actually just a UI fail.

The autocomplete turns language names into ISO 693-3 three-letter language codes. Language names themselves are a large kettle of fish. "English" is ok, but "Chinese" is a whole language family, with about maybe 15 modern members.

I'll provide some more useful error messages, to point people in the right direction.

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