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 | languages-on-the-web
Authors: Crystal Jones and Robert Behar Casiraghi A very large collection of classified links. Includes also parallel texts in English and many other languages. |
| The UCLA Language Materials Project
Source: University of California at Los
Angeles (UCLA) Collection of links and other information on learning materials of less-commonly taught languages. |
| yourDictionary.com Portal to linguistic and other language resources on the Internet. It includes, among others, A Web of On-line Dictionaries and A Web of On-line Grammars. |
| Constructed Human Languages Source: Chris Bogart, Boulder, CO, USA |
| LangMaker.com Source: Jeffrey Henning |
| Scattered Tongues |
| Some Internet
resources relating to constructed languages Source:
Dr Richard Kennaway,
Norwich, England Annotated listing of over 270 artificial (incl. imaginary) languages. |
| Esperanto Links on the WWW Sources: Esperanto League for North America (ELNA), El Cerrito, CA, USA |
| Free Esperanto Course Author: Bernd Wechner, Minnamurra, Australia |
| Learn not to Speak Esperanto
Source: Justin B. Rye, Edinburgh,
Scotland A Scottish linguist's reasons for thoroughly disliking Esperanto. |
| GLOSA International Auxiliary
Language Source: Paul O. Bartlett,
Vienna, VA, USA An analytic artificial language based mostly on Latin and Greek roots. |
| The International Language Ido - Improved
Esperanto / La linguo internaciona Ido - Esperanto plubonigita Source:? [In English, Ido, French, German and Italian] This seems to be the "official website of the Ido language" |
| La langue
internationale Ido Source: Martin Lavallée,
Montréal, Qué., Canada [In French] Many links and other information. |
| Union Mundial pro Interlingua [In English and
Interlingua] Homepage of the association aimed at popularizing this artificial language based on Latin with a much reduced (and regular) morphology. |
| Lango - "Language
Organisation" Authors: Robert Craig and Antony Alexander "A fully democratic approach towards an international auxiliary language initially based on reformed English". |
| Loglan.org Source: The Loglan Institute,
San Diego, CA, USA Internet resources on Loglan, an artificial human language based on formal logic and designed/invented by James Cooke Brown in the late 1950's. |
| Loglan 1: A Logical Language
Author: James Cooke Brown Grammar of the Loglan language. |
| Lojban - The Logical Language --- la
lojban po'u le logji bangu Source: la lojbangirz. - The Logical
Language Group, Inc. Official home page of Lojban, an artificial language designed in the late 1980s as a further development from a language called Loglan, with the particular design requirements of being culturally neutral, based on the principles of logic, having an unambiguous grammar and suitable eventually for communication between people and computers. |
| La Lojban Source: Veijo Vilva, Vantaa, Finland |
| Unesco Red Book on
Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia Source: Juha Janhunen and Tapani Salminen, Helsinki, Finland.
Classification, present state (no. of speakers), status (endangered, extinct etc.) and other information about approx. 60 rarely-used or extinct languages in Northeastern Asia, belonging to the Uralic (Finno-Ugric and Samoyed), Altaic (Turkic, Mongol and Tungus), Yeniseian, Yukagir, Chukchee-Koryak, Itelmen, Nivkh and Ainu language families. |
| European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages
(EBLUL) / Bureau européen pour les langues moins répandues (BELMR)
Bruxelles, Belgium Lobbying organization on behalf on autochtonous non-official languages spoken within the European Union. |
| Unesco Red Book on
Endangered Languages: Europe Source: Tapani Salminen, Helsinki, Finland. Classification, present state (no. of speakers), status (endangered, extinct etc.) and other information about approx. 60 rarely-used and extinct languages in Europe. |
| Endangered Native American Languages: What is to be done, and why? Author: James Crawford (1994) |
| Teonaht: A Language of Invention Source: Sally Caves, [upstate New York, USA] |
| The Klingon Language Institute Description of and web resources on the Klingon language, invented for the Star Trek TV series. |
| Ardalambion Author: Helge K. Fauskanger, Kjerrgarden,
Norway Detailed survey of the languages invented by Tolkien. |
| Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics Author: Carl F. Hostetter, Crofton, MD, USA |
| The Tolkien Language List
Source: Julian Bradfield, England Web resources on the languages developed by the English writer J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) for use in "The Lord of the Rings" and other works. |
| Indian Languages Links to online language resources written in 13 major languages of India (incl. Sanskrit and English), all using their own scripts. |
| Languages and Scripts of India Author: Yashwant K. Malaiya, Fort Collins, CO, USA |
| Sarasvati Sindhu (Vedic/Indus) Civilization,
Language and Script Source: Dr S.Kalyanaraman, New
Delhi, India Major site on all aspects of the Indus Valley Civilization, including the tentative decipherment of its language. |
| ISO 639 Language ID List
Source: Women Writers Project (WWP), Brown University, Providence, RI, USA List of three- and two-letter ISO codes for the languages of the world. |
| Ethnologue - Languages of the World Source:
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, TX, USA Geographical, demographical, classification and (some) linguistic information about all known languages spoken today or recently extinct; also information on the current state of Bible translations into each language. |
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Joshua Project II
Colorado Springs, CO, USA Detailed data about the number of speakers of languages in all countries of the world, with summarized information by country, people and language. Data can also be downloaded in various formats. |
| The Coptic Language Source: St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society, Los
Angeles, CA, USA History and value of the Coptic language; Coptic lessons; the Coptic alphabet. |
| The Akkadian Language Source: John Heise, Utrecht, the Netherlands Script and description of Akkadian, the Semitic language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. Bibliography, links. Short history of Mesopotamia. |
| Sakhr's Multilingual Dictionary
Source: Sakhr Software, Cairo, Egypt. Online dictionaries between Arabic on one hand and English, French and Turkish on the other. The Arabic forms are given in the Arabic script only. |
| Learn
Assyrian Online Author: Robert Oshana, Chicago, IL, USA Includes grammatical, vocabulary and script information, as well as sample sound files. |
| Elementary Hebrew Source: Quartz Hill School of Theology, Quartz Hill, CA, USA An introduction to Biblical Hebrew. |
| The Evolution of the Maltese Language
Author: Joseph Felice Pace, Malta A short history of the language. |
| Introduction to Ugaritic Grammar Source: Quartz Hill School of Theology, Quartz Hill, CA, USA |
| The Monash Nihongo
ftp Archive Source: Jim
Breen, School of Computer
Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A comprehensive list of free downloadable files useful for writing, reading and studying the Japanese language. Files include: characters, words, texts, utilities, word processors. |
| Japanese <->
English Dictionary Gateway Author: Jeffrey E. F. Friedl,
Sta. Clara, CA, USA On-line bidirectional dictionary of words and phrases. Handles kana and kanji with JIS and EUC encoding. If the user has no Japanese language support with the browser, this dictionary can still be used with romaji transliteration. |
| Jim Breen's WWWJDIC
Server Source: Jim
Breen, School of Computer
Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia On-line bidirectional dictionary of Japanese words. Kana/kanji support necessary. |
| The Japanese Language Author: Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay
Dictionary Source: Peter Austin & David Nathan, Coombsweb
Asian Studies Server, Australian
National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Dictionary, with some grammatical and sociolinguistic information. This language, which is not in everyday use any more, used to be spoken in north-central New South Wales.. |
| The Mon Language Source: Linguistics and Cognitive
Science Program, State University of New York -
University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA A hypertext grammar of the Mon language, spoken by 800,000 people (or more) in Burma and Thailand. |
| Tagalog - Interactive language and Filipino culture resources Source: SEAsite, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA |
| The Georgian Language: An
Outline Grammatical Description Author: P.J. Hillery and Armazi Services, Edinburgh, Scotland. The availability of a Georgian font is desirable but not essential for using this detailed grammar. |
| Peoples and
Languages in Pre-Islamic Indus Valleys Author: Dr. Tariq Rahman, Asian Studies
at the University
of Texas, Austin, TX Scholarly article claiming to demonstrate that the language of the prehistoric Indus Valley Civilization belonged to the Dravidian family. |
| Malayalam Language Fonts, Editors and Publishing Aides Source: The Kerala Organization |
| Web Assisted Learning and
Teaching of Tamil (WALTT) Source: Penn Language
Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA, USA Resources for the teaching of Tamil. |
| History of Telugu
Language Source: India
Network Foundation, Bowling Green, OH, USA Essays on the history of the Telugu language and script, used in the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. |
| Thesaurus indogermanischer Text- und
Sprachmaterialen (Thesaurus of Indo-European Text and Speech Materials) Source: Joint
project of the Universität
Frankfurt - Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Institute of Ancient Near
Easter and Comparative Linguistics (Prague, Czech Republic), The Department of
General and Applied Linguistics of the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and the
Departamento de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea de la Universidad
Complutense de Madrid (Spain) [In German, English, French and Spanish] Bibliography of recent publication on Indo-European linguistics, classified by branch. Special fonts for the full use of this bibliography are available for downloading. |
| IE Documentation Center Source: Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA |
| Comparative
Indoeuropean Data Corpus Authors: Isidore Dyen, Honolulu HI, USA; Joseph B.
Kruskal, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, U.S.A; and Paul
D Black, Faculty of Education, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia.
Source: Linguistic Data Consortium, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Linguistic data useful to the study of Indo-European linguistics, concentrating on lexicostatistic information. |
| The Indo-European
Database (TIED) Cooperative site devoted to Indo-European linguistics and archaeology. |
| Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IED) Source: Department of Comparative Linguistics, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands |
| The Ergativic Stage of Early Proto-Indoeuropean Author: Hans-Joachim Alscher, Austria |
| The Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project Editor: Harry A. Hoffner, Jr, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Glossario ittito (Hittite Glossary) Author: Carmelo Lupini, Messina, Italy [In Italian] |
| The Hittite Home Page
Source: Billie Jean Collins, Emory University,
Atlanta, GA, USA Links to Internet resources. |
| Latviešu valoda starptautiskajâ datortîklâ /
The Latvian Language Source:
Mâkslîgâ intelekta laboratorija,
Latvijas Universitâte, Matemâtikas un informâtikas institûts, Riga,
Latvia [In
Latvian and English] A short introduction to the Latvian language, followed by a directory of links to web pages dealing with various aspects of the language. |
| Virdainas (Dictionary)
Author:
Joseph Pashka, Tucson, AZ, USA English-Sudovian dictionary - Sudovian seemingly being a Baltic language supposedly spoken in SW Lithuanian, and nowadays mostly supplanted by Lithuanian. |
| The Elbing Vocabulary: An
Electronic Text Edition Source: Frederik Kortlandt, University of
Leiden, Netherlands The full text of an Old Prussian-German glossary, essential for the study of this extinct language. |
| Brezhoneg
(Breton) Source: Alain Cedelle On-line introductory lessons. |
| MacBain - Etymological Dictionary
of the Gaelic Language Author: Alexander MacBain.
Source: Fàilte
gu Sabhal Mór Ostaig, Island of Skye, Scotland On-line version of the 2nd edition (1911, reprinted and republished by Gairm Publications, Glasgow, Scotland, in 1982) of the celebrated etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language, still spoken in north-western Scotland. |
| Gaelic Languages Info Source: John T. McCranie, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Fockleyr Gaelg - Baarle
(Manx-English Dictionary) Source: Gaelic
Languages Info, by John
T. McCranie, Seattle, WA, USA "Data derived from Douglas C. Fargher's English - Manx Dictionary of 1979" |
| Yn Ghaelg ~ Manx Gaelic: Manx Language Resources Source: Fàilte gu Sabhal Mór Ostaig, Island of Skye, Scotland |
| A Welsh Course Source: Mark Nodine, Rhode Island,
USA An introductory course for the teaching of Welsh. |
| Linguistic Atlas Projects
Director: William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., University of Georgia, Athens, GA,
USA Exploration of US English dialects, based on large databases of linguistic information collected from informants. |
| Mímir
Author: John Tebbutt Hypertext-based introduction to Icelandic grammar. |
| Elektroniske ordbøker
(Electronic Dictionaries) Source:
Dokumentasjonsprosjektet,
Oslo, Norway On-line dictionaries of the Bokmål and Nynorsk versions of the Norwegian language. |
| Old English Pages: Texts & MSS Source: Catherine N. Ball, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown Univesrity, Washington, DC, USA |
| Khowar, the Language of Chitral, Pakistan
Source: Ismail Sloan, San Rafael, CA,
USA Survey and word list of a language spoken by 250,000 people in north-western Pakistan. |
| Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon Source: Institut für Indologie und Tamilistik,
Universität zu Köln (Cologne), Germany On-line dictionary based on Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary with approx. 160,000 main entries. Searchable in either language. |
| Overview of the Avestan Language Source: AVESTA -- Zoroastrian Archives |
| OccitaNet Editor: Mathias van den Bossche
[In Occitan, French and English] Portal site dedicated to the Occitan language, still widely spoken in southern France (and in small areas of Spain and Italy). |
| A Lingua Portuguesa (The Portuguese Language) |
| Limba e curtura de sa
Sardigna / Sardinian Language and Culture Source: Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung,
University of Cologne, Germany. [In Sardinian, English and German] Resource page on Sardinian linguistics: links to pages on the grammar, history and a linguistic map of Sardinian dialects. |
| Hanwen Web Portal to Chinese-language resources, including online character dictionaries and discussions of linguistic matters related to the Chinese language and writing system. Also, special material on Mandarin, Hakka and Cantonese. |
| Hakka Dialect (Language) Author: S. L. Lee |
| Hoklo.org A rather unsytematic collection of data on the language that is the mother tongue of the majority of inhabitants of Taiwan. |
| Finno-Ugrian Languages
Source: Tapani Salminen,
Department of
Finno-Ugrian Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Number of speakers and geographic location of Uralic languages (incl. Finno-Ugric and Samoyed). |
| Eesti Keele Institut (EKI)
/ Institute of the Estonian
Language Tallinn, Estonia [In Estonian and English] Portal on Estonian-language resources. |
| English-Estonian Dictionary Source: Institute of Baltic Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia |
| Esimene Eesti Slängi Sõnaraamat (Dictionary of Slang) Source: Mai Loog, Ph.D. [In Estonian] |
| The History of Written Estonian Author: Matthias Bolliger; Source: Institute of Baltic Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia |
| Väike murdesõnastik / Dialectological dictionary of Estonian Source: Institute of Baltic Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia
[In Estonian, with some explanations in English] Searchable database. |
| English-Hungarian Dictionary and Deutsch-Ungarisches Wörterbuch (German-Hungarian Dictionary) Source: MTA SZTAKI, (Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Budapest, Hungary |
| A Hungarian Language Course Source: Aaron Rubin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Szótárak (Dictionaries)
Source: Károly Dévényi, Department
of Informatics, University
of Szeged,
Szeged, Hungary Online Hungarian dictionaries into and from English and German. |
| Sumerian Language Page Author: John A. Halloran, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| A Brief Grammar of Euskara, the Basque Language Source: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / |
| Euskara, the Language of the Basque People - El euskara, idioma de los vascos Source: Donostia-San Sebastián Convention Bureau, San Sebastián, Spain [In English and Spanish] |
| The Whole Basque Place-Name List - Euskal herriko toponimoen izendegia Source: Geonative (Luistxo Fernandez), Donostia (San Sebastián), Basque Country, Spain [In English and Basque] |
| MacroEusian Author: Glen
Gordon, Winnipeg, MA, Canada (?) Grammatical information on a hypothetical proto-language ancestral to Etruscan, Uralic, Sumerian, Indo-European, Altaic, Dravidian, "Esk-Aleut" and Yukaghir. |
| Language Profiles Source: UCLA Language Materials Project, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Language profiles (brief language surveys, mostly on sociolinguistic aspects) of approx. 40 less-commonly taught languages. Information includes references to universities where the language concerned is currently taught in North America. |
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