A buddy (Graydon) and I were at that “Finishing the Task” think-tank a couple of weeks ago. When Graydon was done, he wrote our VP of Mobilization about the roughly 17,000 recordings available at
http://www.globalrecordings.net
Then the VP of Mobilization (Eric D) wrote me to make sure I remembered the resource. The truth is, we don’t publish enough about these guys. They make available lots of free downloads, hook us up with extraordinary devices, and push the envelope on languages all over the world. They’re a quality bunch. Hats off to Graydon and Eric D for jogging our memory on them.
Through our research there may be a total of 7,000 languages and 10,000 dialects. Unfortunately we have not recorded all of these languages. There are about 4,500 ready to download from our web site and another 1,500 master cd’s that will need to be sent from our office.
To set the record straight here are the actual statistics for GRN.
11,596 programs are available in 5,944 languages and dialects. Of these 9,895 programs in 5,140 languages are available for free download from our web site. Any of the above can also be supplied on CD’s, audio cassettes of MP3’s for a nominal cost.