01What is a variant?
A variant is a language as spoken in one place: its sound, its words and how it addresses the listener. Two variants of one language are understood by both audiences, but one of them sounds foreign to the other.
02How to read the list
- Language pageThe language as a whole, with the main variants and how they differ.
- Variant pageOne market, with the voices, words and address that belong to it.
- The atlasEvery language and country, grouped by region.
- A page that does not exist yetAsk for it in the form: we answer which voices we would cast.
03When to name the country
- The audience is in one country: name it.
- The audience is in several: list them all, we propose one recording or several.
- The audience is a diaspora: name the country they come from.