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LANGUAGES of the world
- A Web of
On-line Grammars - This website contains links to all of
the serious if not complete grammars of languages on the Web. It
currently contains links to grammars of more than 80 different
languages.
- Barrett
Translations' Language Resources - Language and linguistics
resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with
vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old
English with romanization and transliteration.
- Convent of Pater Noster
- The Lord's Prayer in more than one thousand languages and dialects.
- Ethnologue - Extensive
database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map,
language family, country, and language name. From Summer Institute of
Linguistics. Also offers print and CD-ROM versions.
- The
Genetic Unity of Black African, Elamite, Dravidian, and Sumerian
Languages - Attempt at showing a genetic relationship among four
language groups not normally thought of as related.
- GeoNative -
"Putting minority and native languages on the map."
Information on world language geography, with emphasis on minor
languages.
- The Human-Languages Page
- The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of
language-related Internet resources. The over 1900 links in the HLP
database have been hand-reviewed to bring the best language links the
Web has to offer.
- ISO 639
Languages and Dialects - ISO 639 code for the representation of
names of languages with additional data and references.
- Jennifer's
Language Page - How to say hello, please, thank you, and other
basic social phrases, in hundreds of languages. Includes links to
dictionaries, phrase guides, and other resources for many of the
world's languages and countries.
- Language Families
- Introduction to the major language families, including
Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic.
- Language
Families - Maps of the various language families, with background
reference material, based on Encyclopaedia Britannica material.
- Language Miniatures
- Mini-essays about human language in its endless kaleidoscope of
aspects.
- Language Museum -
Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the
world.
- The
Language Museum - Lists of basic words in various languages
grouped by family.
- Language
of the Week - A different world language is examined each week.
Includes archives of past weeks.
- Language Portraits -
Translations of one poem into 82 languages by native speakers.
- Language Tree
- List of world language hierarchies.
- Languages
of the World - A description of major world languages and
language families, with links.
- Languages on the
Web - 30,000 selected links to as many as 400 different
languages, plus the first internet library of multilingual parallel
texts.
- Liberation Philology
- low-cost, no-nonsense, user-friendly computer programs to help
beginning and intermediate students master the vocabulary and/or
basic grammar of a variety of ancient, medieval, and modern
languages.
- The
Linguist List: Language Resources - Searchable information on
language families, employment opportunities, publications, text and
computer tools, language study and pedagogy.
- The List of
Language Lists - List-servers for a wide variety of language
studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien.
- LMBM: Table of
Contents - The personal website of Robert Beard, devoted to the
study of morphology, especially Beard's theory of 'Lexeme-Morpheme
Base Morphology'. It is linked to an index of on-line dictionaries
and grammars, and several pages of linguistic fun.
- Multilingual Data
Bank - Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of
General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples
from the rarer languages.
- The Rosetta Project -
Working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta
Stone, a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000
languages.
- UCLA Language Materials Project
Index Pages - Information on less-commonly taught languages.
- Vocabulary
Test - A java applet to test your language skills in French,
Spanish, German and Czech.
- 123world - Languages
of Our World - Links to world language sites.
- The
World's Top Twenty Spoken Languages - Estimates for the world's
top 20 languages (given in millions) on the basis of the number of
mother-tongue (first-language) speakers and population estimates for
those countries where the language has official status.
- Yamada Language Center -
Extensive information and web links on languages.
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