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Constructed Languages

  • A Philosophical Grammar of Ithkuil: A Constructed Language: Ithkuil is a cross between an a priori philosophical language and a logical language designed to demonstrate how human languages could function, not as they do function. Ithkuil aims for the highest possible degree of logic, efficiency, detail, and accuracy in spoken/written expression, while minimizing the ambiguity, vagueness, illogic, redundancy, polysemy and arbitrariness of natural languages. Word-formation utilizes concepts from cognitive linguistics such as prototype theory, fuzzy logic, radial categorization and semantic complementarity. The language also features a unique
  • A Reference Grammar of Goesk: Goesk is a constructed language inspired by some West Germanic languages.
  • A pagga doul'Aingeljã - La página del Angeliano - Angelian's Homepage: Aingeljã (Angelian) is a new romance conlang invented by Ángel Serrano. It is inspired mainly by Spanish, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, French and Italian, with some Germanic influences from English and German. The web page can be read in Angelian, Spanish and English, and contains phonetic information, a grammar, an illustrated vocabulary, a dictionary, and sample texts, some of which are provided with audio files.
  • Ardalambion: Of the Tongues of Arda, the invented world of J.R.R. Tolkien. The most comprehensive site about Tolkien's invented languages that you are likely to find on the net.
  • Arkian: A natural language spoken in the Ark Maramia microstate.
  • Atlango: Richard A. Antonius ATLANGO - The new neutral international language. A new proposal for the common language for The European Union. Easy to learn, pronounce and highly euphonious.
  • Brandonian: The latest romance language from Jordan Kay, based off Portuguese.
  • Colloquial Black Speech for Orcs, Trolls, and Men: Lexicon of Tolkein's Conlang
  • Dastmen, new artificial language: Dastmen is a new artificial language, spoken by a little community that counts on 200 members. Dastmen was created by the Spanish Juan M. Jiménez in 1984. It has a great lexicon, with more than 350000 words, without an existent or artificial lexical root, and a simple grammar.
  • El Glhetg Talossán: Site describing Talossan, a Romance conlang begun in the early 1980s by Robert Ben Madison. One of the largest and most developed naturalistic conlangs, Talossan is inspired mainly by North African Latin, Occitan, Sardinian, Rhaeto-Romance languages, and Berber languages, with additional influences from Gaelic, Germanic languages, and Native American languages. The site includes a searchable English>Talossan dictionary/word translator, pronunciation guide, and samples of Talossan literature.
  • Esata Language Description: Esata is a newly designed 'constructed language'. It is a 'bare bones' version of English which has been internationalized to a high degree. Esata is proposed as a personal language for English speakers, and also as a simplified form of English for use as a standard creole.
  • Esperanto Studies and Interlinguistics: A central resource page for research on international linguistic communication and planned languages, especially Esperanto. It includes research organizations, publications, and Internet sites.
  • Esperanto.net: This is a multi-lingual website introduction to Esperanto and to Esperanto groups and organizations around the world. Tio ĉi estas plur-lingva retloka enkonduko al Esperanto kaj al Esperantaj grupoj kaj organizaĵoj tra la mondo.
  • Etrer'aous: This language is unique on its own, although being inspired by Tolkien's many forms of Elvish (and other langs of the sort), German grammar, French, and more.
  • Heratï Central: The premiere site for resources about the artificial language Heratï, providing step-by-step tutorials, with grammar, pronunciation and example texts; as well as online and offline dictionaries.
  • I Lam Arth - The Noble Tongue: Site dedicated to the technical analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien's Welsh inspired constructed language - Sindarin.
  • Ido, linguo internaciona: Revue of sites about the International Language Ido, in different national languages.
  • Ido-Skolo: Ido-school, a thorough system to learn the International Language Ido; La Ido-escuela, un profundo sistema para aprender Ido - la lengua internacional; Ido-school, een grondig systeem om de internationale taal Ido te leren; Ido-Schule, fur die Weltsprache Ido zu lehrnen; Ido-scuola, per imparare Ido, la lingua internazionale.
  • Indo-European Language Revival: The Dnghu Group supports and promotes the revival of Indo-European as a modern language. This site hosts news, manuals and software, and is the administrative center for Indo-European revival sites and online projects. Public participation is welcome.
  • International Auxiliary Languages: Information on constructed languages for international use.
  • Lara Language: "LARA" is an artistic fictional language, very easy to learn. Its creation began in 1991 and at present it has a complete grammar and more then 7000 words, most of which composed by no more then 2 syllables. There are several texts and translations in Lara language available on the Net. Members can find here the grammar, exercises and complete vocabulary.
  • Lojban: Culturally neutral logical language.
  • Láadan: The Women's Language: Site for Suzette Haden Elgin's women's language from her novels. The language has grown beyond the books. Good sci fi related language links and sites about her: she is a linguist.
  • Omnesian: Omnesian, a new romance language created by Jordan Kay.
  • Romanova, the neutral Romance interlanguage: Dictionary and Romanova lessons.
  • Tceqli: An attempt to make a more learnable, more esthetic, version of Loglan.
  • The International Language Ido: Information on Ido, including vocabularies and news from the Ido movement.
  • The Klingon Language Institute: The Klingon Language was invented by linguist Marc Okrand for Paramount Pictures Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and has been used in subsequent movies and television shows. The language shows linguistically interesting features as a constructed language. The KLI is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization created to explore the only artificial language to acquire a following in popular culture.
  • The page of Brithenig: Brithenig started as a thought-experiment to create a Romance language that might have evolved if Latin speakers had been a sufficient number to displace Old Celtic as the spoken language of the people in Great Britain.


Endangered Languages



Language Families

  • Altaic Linguistics - Monumenta Altaica: Site devoted to the Altaic languages and linguistics. It contains texts in modern and ancient Altaic languages: Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu-tungus, Korean and Japanese; dictionaries, grammars, papers, bibliographies, etymological data.
  • An Overview of the Uralic Languages and Peoples: The origins and modern situation of the Uralic language family.
  • David Birnbaum's Slavic Languages page: Information on Slavic language family, Russian and East European Studies.
  • Endangered and Seldom Studied Languages of South Asia: This bibliography is intended to help researchers of seldom studied or endangered South Asian languages, and those embarking on such a study for the first time, in locating literature on these languages. It is also intended to be a means of letting other researchers know of new work in the field which may be of interest to them.
  • Etymological Table Dictionaries of Indoeuropean from INDIN: Etymological dictionary of Indo-European languages in table form on-line.
  • Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen: Information about Finno-Ugric languages.
  • Finno-Ugric links: Collection of links to Uralic (Finno-Ugric) languages and resources.
  • Gur Languages Page: Information on the Gur Languages of the Niger-Congo language family privided by Dept. of Linguistics, University of Vienna.
  • Independent Investigations: Restoration of developmental history of Nostratic (Indoeuropean, Altaic, Uralic) languages using lexical-statistical method. Material is illustrated with maps.
  • Latin American Network Information Center: Links to resources for those interested in languages spoken in Latin America
  • Ljuba Veselinova: Map Collection: A collection of linguistic maps showing geographic location and spread of language families and individual languages and dialects.
  • Nostratic: Nostratic bibliography.
  • Nuristani: Description of the Nuristani Languages
  • Orbis Latinus: Latin and Neo-Latin (Romance) languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish etc.
  • Penutian: The Penutian language family of Oregon and California.
  • Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Meso-america: Online dictionaries of Oluta Mijean (Mixean), San Miguel Chimalapa Soke (Zoque).
  • Proto-Baltic: Description of Proto-Baltic dialects.
  • TapaniSalminen: Information on Finno-Ugrian languages, within them Samoyed languages and the Forest Nenets and Tundra Nenets languages in particular; also information about endangered languages in Europe and Northeast Asia, with overall classifications of European and Northeast Asian languages.
  • The Nilo-Saharan Language Family: Basic outline of languagae families in Africa, with some detail about Nilo-Saharan and Nilotic.
  • The ergativic stage of early Proto-Indoeuropean: Information on the ergativic stage of early Proto-Indoeuropean by Hans-Joachim Alscher.
  • Tibeto-Burman Languages: Tibeto-Burman language family.
  • World Language Phyla/Family Mapping: Dr. Stephen Huffman has classified the languages of the Ethnologue into broader groupings following Merritt Ruhlen’s A Guide to the World’s Languages (published 1987, 1991 by Stanford University Press), and has produced as series of maps of language phyla and families using this classified data and several versions of GMI's World Language Mapping System and Seamless Digital Chart of the World geographic data sets. PDF versions of the maps available for download, as are Dr. Huffman's data table and ArcGIS project files. Maps available for download on the website include: The World's Language Phyla Languages of Africa Languages of the Horn of Africa Languages of China The Eurasiatic Language Phylum Languages of the Indian Subcontinent Languages of Southeast Asia Languages of Sudan The IndoEuropean Language Family Maps, classification tables, and map GIS projects have been updated to correspond to the 15th Edition Ethnologue (World Language Mapping System version 3.2) as of 4 April 2006. The updated maps have been produced using a superior PDF compression technique for greater detail and smaller download size.


Language Meta Sites

  • A Directory of web sites about The English Language: TheEnglishLanguage.org is a categorised directory of web sites about the English Language, listing thousands of sites under dozens of categories.
  • Anell Valencianiste: Valencian web ring with all the Valencian language sites by categories. Web site in Valencian.
  • Bisharat! A language, technology & development initiative: Site of an effort to facilitate the use of ICT in African languages for rural development. The current focus is on multilingual computing and internet applications. There are many resources and links, including some to specialized discussion forums.
  • CALL list of linguistics links: Linguistic metasite pertaining to a large variety of specialties.
  • Computational Linguistics in Poland: This web page contains links to various sites devoted to Computational Linguistics (CL) / Natural Language Processing (NLP) / Linguistic Engineering (LE) in Poland, including sites containing Polish resources such as corpora, lexica, etc.
  • E-MELD School of Best Practice Case Studies: This site showcases several endangered languages, providing background information as well as detailed tutorials on how the language documentation was digitized and archived in best practice format.
  • EUROMOSAIC. European Minority Languages Web Site: This site gives a lot of information about minority languages in the European Union. It includes reports and sociolinguistic surveys.
  • Free access to Inttranews Archives for linguists: Inttranews, the leading wire service for the global language industry, now provides free access to its Archives for linguists. Rouen, France (for immediate release): Since the launch in October 2004 of Inttranews, the leading wire service for the global language industry, excerpts from more than 7,500 articles have been published on events and issues of interest or concern to linguists worldwide. These archives are an extremely valuable source of information for linguists, journalists, students and academic staff, as a research tool for articles, study papers or theses, as background data for marketing, for media and market surveys, and for business involving the language industry in general. Until today, however, to make downloading as fast as possible, only the last 10 days of articles were displayed on the site. Now with Inttranews Archives, readers have access free of charge to all the articles on-line, with searches by keyword. On average, 30 new articles are published each working day in the two language versions currently available (English and French). The articles are different in, and specific to each language version. To use Inttranews Archives, please visit www.inttranews.net and click on the 'Archives' link in the left-hand menu. News, not noise The quality of Inttranews is that it combines state-of-the-art information and communication technology with human editors, so that content is dedicated to readers' interests, unlike automated news aggregators. As a result, more than 10,000 linguists read Inttranews each month in international institutions, university departments, professional associations, translation services and companies, as well as salaried and freelance interpreters and translators in more than 40 countries. The service has been syndicated by institutions such as the International Federation of Translators (FIT) [www.fit-ift.org], representing more than 100,000 interpreters and translators in 60 countries, and by the European Union of Associations of Translation Companies (EUATC) [www.euatc.org], representing more than 500 translation companies in 20 countries. About Inttranews is one of a range of products for the global language industry designed and developed by HTT (www.htt.fr), an ISO 9001 (v2000)-certified translation company specialized in high technology located in Rouen, France. Founded in 1987, its customer base comprises international institutions and multinational companies, particularly in aeronautics, electronic engineering, mechanical engineering and petrochemicals. Other products designed and developed by HTT include the multilingual Inttranet portal (www.inttra.net) with a complete range of services for professional interpreters and translators, and Terminall, an ISO 12616-compliant multilingual terminology database, capable of storing, managing and displaying any language combination of search and target terms. HTT s.a. 216, route de Neufchâtel, 76420 Bihorel, France Plc with a capital of EUR 100,000.
  • How to learn any language: Non-commercial website about teaching yourself languages created by a language enthusiast. Discussion forum about independent language learning with a strict 'no chit chat' policy. Large section about Cardinal Mezzofanti, the great 19th century Italian polyglot. Language profiles for the prospective language learner with detailed discussion or each language difficulty and usefulness.
  • Informationen zur Gespraechsforschun: Information resource for anyone interested in the study of language and interaction. Contains general information, conference announcements, the online journal gespraechsforschung-online, and much more.
  • Language Global Link - Linguist links database: An on-line interactive database of language-related links - unique on the web.
  • Language News for a Linguist: LanguageNews is a daily updated selection of the latest news related to linguistics.
  • Languages of Our World - 123world: Official sites of languages of our world including Hindi, Tamil, Irish, Japanese, Malay, Sanskrit, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Farsi, German, French, Latin, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, an alphabetic listing of languages Sites.
  • Latin American Network Information Center: Links to resources for those interested in languages spoken in Latin America
  • LingForum.Com: An academic forum website for the discussion of anything related to linguistics. Subcategories include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, first and second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, historical linguistics and others.
  • Linguasphere: The website of the Linguasphere Observatory - an independent research network devoted to the study and promotion of multilingualism and the exploration of our global linguistic environment. Contains extracts from the Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities - the first comprehensive and transnational classification of the languages and dialects of the world.
  • Links to Linguistic and Related Information at University of Passau: Linguistics related resources.
  • Rhetcomp.com: A portal to resources for practitioners of Rhetoric and Composition.
  • Rosetta Project: The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages.
  • SSI - Sites Sobre Idiomas (Sites About Languages): The SSI is a Brazilian page that has many links for language sites and for sites about other themes. In Portuguese and Esperanto.
  • Slang Links: Useful links to English and Scandinavian slang-related sites.
  • Sydney University Listing: Linguistics, Natural Language, and Computational Linguistics Meta-index
  • Systemic Meaning Modelling Group: Information about systemic function theory, description and application resources (bibliographical, software); link to the systemic functional newsletter Network maintained at this site.
  • Thinkers.net: A comprehensive search engine and directory for Languages and Literature.
  • Translations: Professional translation to and from all languages by Lengua Translations.
  • University of Helsinki Language Corpus Server (UHLCS): The University of Helsinki Language Corpus Server (UHLCS) is a multilingual databank and data server located at the Department of General Linguistics, the University of Helsinki.
  • WISDOM : Search: Languages: Most comprehensive listing of languages and linguistics including academic resources and courses.
  • Webresources for African languages: The main aim of this site is to provide easy access to online materials (descriptive as well as theoretic) on African languages. Regularly updated every two to three months.
  • Yahoo: Human Language and Linguistics Page.
  • Yahoo Human Languages and Linguistics Page: A collection of linguistics related links.
  • Yamada WWW Language Guides: The Yamada WWW Language Guides are the definitive guide to language resources on the World Wide Web.
  • iLoveLanguages Page: A comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources.


Natural Languages

  • A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian by Carl Buck: Buck's out-of-copyright grammar, dating from 1904.
  • A Poética Crioula di Sérgio Frusoni: Sergio Frusoni has written a lot of poems in the capeverdean creole of São Vicente. The creole of São Vicente is also known as criol or crioulo. The website from Simone Caputo Gomes describes the literary works of Sergio Frusoni.
  • A Rapanui Myth about the God Tangaroa: The decipherment of the rongorongo script of Easter Island.
  • A possible homeland of the Indo-European homeland: Consequences of separation level method on subgrouping of Indo-European and working hypothesis of migrations in agreement with that.
  • A website about the languages and cultures of Northern Pakistan: Gawri, Shina, Torwali, Pashto, Hindko, Gujari, Burushaski, Khowar, and Kalasha, along with other information about Kalam, Swat, and Kohistan, etc.
  • ADILQ Asociación de Investigadores en Lengua Quechua: A site about the Quechua language of Santiago del Estero, Republica Argentina.
  • ALS Translation Services: Free Translation Tool: Providing translation services into over 140 different languages and specialising in all types of translation including websites.
  • About the French Language: Free resources for students, teachers, and lovers of French and French linguistics.
  • Albanian World: "Welcome to Cezar Kurti`s Web Page" here you can find Albanian language lessons, translations (Shakespeare, Dostojevsky, Voltaire, Kjara Lubik, Nostradamus, etc.) and other information about this Indo-European language.
  • Altaic languages: The graphical models of relationship and the map of Turkic, Mongolian, Tungus, Korean and Japanese settlement areas in the time of forming of separate languages. The results were received by using Data base of An Internacional Etymological Database Project http://starling.rinet.ry
  • Arabismo: Netsite about Arabic Studies and the Arabic Language (in Spanish).
  • Archive ARTXIKER Artxiboa: The Artxiker Archive (Artxiker) is a new digital library which receives and diffuses the scholarly production of international research in the field of the Basque language and typologically-related languages.
  • Atlas Lingüístico (y etnográfico) de Castilla-La Mancha: ATLAS LINGÜÍSTICO (Y ETNOGRÁFICO) DE CASTILLA-LA MANCHA (ALeCMan) dirigido por Pilar García-Mouton & Francisco Moreno-Fernández El primer atlas lingüístico que ofrece una amplia muestra cartográfica en línea http://www.uah.es/otrosweb/alecman En la página web del ALeCMan se puede consultar: * Información sobre el español hablado en el centro de España * Documentos explicativos de la metodología seguida para la confección del atlas lingüístico * Un amplia muestra de mapas de diversos campos léxico-semánticos (entre otros, animales del campo, animales domésticos, caza y pesca, el campo y sus cultivos) LINGUISTIC (AND ETHNOGRAPHIC) ATLAS OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA (ALeCMan) edited by Pilar Garcia-Mouton & Francisco Moreno-Fernandez The first Linguistic Atlas presenting an assorted sample of maps on-line http://www.uah.es/otrosweb/alecman In the ALecMan web-page, the following can be found: * Information about Spanish language spoken in central Spain * Documents presenting the methodology followed to prepare the Linguistic Atlas * A wide sample of maps relating to different lexical fields (small animals, farm animals, hunting and fishing, field and crops, among others) <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>> ATLAS LINGUISTIQUE (ET ETNOGRAPHIQUE) DE CASTILLA-LA MANCHA (ALeCMan) dirigé par Pilar Garcia-Mouton & Francisco Moreno-Fernandez Le premier atlas linguistique offrant une grande variété de cartes en ligne http://www.uah.es/otrosweb/alecman Sur le site de l’ ALeCMan peuvent être consultés: * Information sur l’espagnol d’une aire de la zone centrale de la Espagne * Des documents expliquant la méthodologie employée dans la réalisation de l’atlas * Une variété de cartes de différents champs lexico-sémantiques (dont les animaux des champs, les animaux domestiques, la chasse et la pêche, la campagne et ses cultures) <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>
  • Awal_nu_Shawi: Tashawit(hchawit) is a variety of the Berber language (a branch of the Afro-Asiatic family). It is spoken by Ishawiyen, The Berbers of Eastern Algeria. Our aim is to provide a free platform for the discussion and dissemination of ideas related to Tashawit. We seek to expose the beauty of Shawi words and explore their creative dimensions in poetry, prose and music. We believe that AWAL, the word is the gate of cultural heritage, and that writing is the key to its permanence.
  • Basque Grammar: This is a brief grammar of the Basque language.
  • Bilingual Families Connect: Bilingual Families Connect is the site to find tips and advice from other parents like you who are raising bilingual children.
  • Bishnupriya Manipuri Language: A website about the Bishnupriya Manipuri Language language, which was driven out of states court language, retained by the Aryan people in Manipur and which they took shelter in Assam, Tripura, Burma and Bangladesh.
  • Cartografía lingüística de Extremadura (Spain): Linguistic Atlas of Extremadura (Spain). 418 linguistic and ethnographic maps.
  • Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades: Center for Galician Language Linguistics and Literary Research
  • Chamorro Language Resources: 1908 Bible, 1918 Chamorro-English Dictionary, Chamorro Language Grammer book: 1908 Chamorro Bible (technically called a portion) containing six books: Y Salmo Sija, Y Ybangelio Según San Mateo, Y Ybangelio Según San Marcos, Y Ybangelio Según San Lucas, Y Ybangelio Según San Juan, Y Checho Y Apostoles Sija. The Bible books are in HTML format accompanied by scanned images (low-resolution and high-resolution) of the corresponding pages in the original Bible. The translation was done by Francis Marion Price (1850-1937). ChamorroBible.org also contains a Chamorro language resources section which includes the scanned images of a 1918 Chamorro-English/English Chamorro dictionary by Edward R. von Preissig, Ph.D and a Chamorro language grammer book by William Edwin Safford. All the books can be freely copied, printed, and mirrored. Chamorro is an official language in the US Territory of Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan Luta/Rota, Tinian).
  • Cheyenne Language Web Site: Cheyenne is spoken in southeastern Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, and in central Oklahoma.
  • Chinese Linguistics/Ohio State University: A web page on Chinese linguistics at Ohio State University.
  • CoLFIS (Corpus & Frequency Lexicon of Written Italian): This reference corpus consists of excerpts from newspapers, magazines and books. It includes 3.150.075 lexical occurrences. The corpus was designed as the best approximation to the Italians’ average preferred readings, as mirrored by official statistics. The lexicon consists of two main components: the forms repertoire and the lemmas repertoire. They are organized according to a number of possibilities: frequency rank, inverse alphabetical ordering, with or without capital / non-capital distinction, etc. The entire corpus is not yet available. We hope to put it on-line as soon as we obtain the necessary authorizations.
  • Colchis: Information on Laz and Mingrelian languages.
  • Computer Assisted Language Worker: Reviews of software and methods for using computers for various aspects of language analysis and field work, specifically Australian languages.
  • Cultura Valenciana: Information about the history of the Valencian language and Valencian literature. Web site in Valencian.
  • Curso de Inglés a través de Chistes: Es un gran sitio para hispanos que están aprendiendo inglés. Tiene una colección de chistes en inglés con su vocabulario, gramática y expresiones comentadas.. EL desafío es doble. Los estudiantes tienen que entender el idioma y el sentido del chiste!!!
  • Dagaare Linguists' Home Page: This is an informal grouping of professional academic linguists who have worked or are working on the Dagaare language.
  • Danish Grammar: A comprehensive English-language treatment of Danish grammar.
  • Deciphered Etruscan Language: Materials on Etruscan language.
  • Devanagari Translation: Free translation website for languages using Devanagari script i.e. Sanskrit, Hindi & Marathi.
  • Die Seiten für Rechtschreibung: News and discussions on the steady decline of the recent German spelling reform.
  • Die arabische Sprache und Schrift: All about the Arabic language: history, system, learning, software, calligraphy.
  • Digital Tamil Literature: Searchable Tamil Digital Text Archive.
  • Dolomitic Ladin: Linguistic Atlas of Dolomitic Ladin - (ALD I)
  • Dutch Language: Dutch language schools, dictionary, words and other resources
  • Dutch Language: Dutch language schools, dictionary, words and other resources about Dutch.
  • Endangered Moluccan Languages: This website provides information about a project which is documenting endangered and previously undescribed languages in the Maluku region of eastern Indonesia.
  • Endangered and Seldom Studied Languages of South Asia: This bibliography is intended to help researchers of seldom studied or endangered South Asian languages, and those embarking on such a study for the first time, in locating literature on these languages. It is also intended to be a means of letting other researchers know of new work in the field which may be of interest to them.
  • Es Bolleti: Bulletin of the Platform by the Balearic language. Books, articles and information about the Balearic language are available to the visitor.
  • Etruscan Phrases: Etruscan Phrases showing Etruscan conjugation and declension patterns, vocabulary and translations; Etruscan etymological relationships to other Indo-European languages;
  • Etymological Table Dictionaries of Iranian languages: Etymological Dictionaries of some Iranian languages (Ossetian, Kurdish, Yagnobian, Talishian, Pushtu, Persian, Gilanian, Pamirian, Yazgulamian, Sarykolian) in table form.
  • Etymologie - die Lehre der Wortherkunft: Etymologie - die Lehre der Wortherkunft
  • FACAO: Federation of Cultural Associations of the Oriental Aragon (FACAO) dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Oriental Aragonese language. Grammar of the Oriental Aragonese is available.
  • Focusing on Words: Vocabulary activities with an extensive cross reference of English words that are derived from Latin and Greek sources.
  • Forum for Iranian Linguistics: This site is designed to provide resources for the theoretical and computational study of the Iranian languages with emphasis on Persian. It includes a bibliography of papers, dissertations and books published on Iranian Linguistics, as well as unpublished material on the subject.
  • Foundation of Genetic and Linguistic Studies: Publications in anthropological linguistics of Basque, Dene-Caucasian, Usko-Mediterranean.
  • Free Machine Translation: Free Machine Translation tools for text, websites and emails. There is also a free piece of HTML code which can be added to personal websites.
  • Free Online Translation: PROMT-Reverso online is a powerful translation solution for Internet users. It supports the following translation: -from English to French, German, Russian and Spanish; -from French to English, German and Russian; -from German to English, French and Russian; -from Russian to English, French and German; -from Italian to Russian; -from Spanish to English. This service can be very helpful in translating small texts on various subject matters, email messages or browsing international web sites.
  • Free Website Localization: Free Localization is a cooperative translation project to help webmasters get free multilingual versions of their website.
  • French Proverbs from 1611: A summary of 1,500 proverbs found in Randle Cotgrave's A dictionarie of the French and English tongues, published in 1611. Most are in French with English translations; a few English and Latin proverbs are also included.
  • French courses in France: Let’s learn French in France with Azurlingua, one of the most renowned language school in France. We offer French language courses in Nice (French Riviera) adapted to everyone : course for adults, course for teenagers and course for teachers of French as second language
  • Frequently Asked Questions about English Grammar: Information on English language presented by John Lawler.
  • German Speech Errors: Collection of 474 German speech errors by Richard Wiese.
  • Germanic and Scythian Toponyms in Ukraine: Maps of territories of Indo-European and old Finnic-Urgian languages.
  • Get your name in Thai: Translate foreign first names into Thai script.
  • Gramática Popular del Triqui de Copala: A nontechnical description of the Copala Trique language organized by parts of speech, written in Spanish. Four analyzed texts and an appendix giving detailed information about tone changes are included, plus a separate file for the cover.
  • Greek Language: Greek language schools, dictionary, words and other resources about Greek.
  • Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway: Information about Greek language and bibliographic recourses on Greek linguistics.
  • Guarani Renda: Site about the Guarani language.
  • Gur Homepage: Information on research in Gur (Voltaic) linguistics; by John Rennison, Dept. of Linguistics; Univ. of Vienna
  • Hablas de Extremadura en la red: Contemple la columna de la Plaza Chica de Zafra y observe la vara de medir, patrón medieval para los mercaderes que se instalaban en la ciudad extremeña. Admire un detalle del Órgano de Brozas
  • Hebrew Language and Linguistics: International forums for Hebrew editors, translators, and writers.
  • Hindi Language: Hindi language schools, dictionary, words and other resources about Hindi.
  • Hindi: Language of the Songs: Information about Hindi language, its dialects, history, and other resources.
  • History of Kannada Language: Dr. Jyotsna Kamat traces the roots of Dravidian language Kannada and discusses various literary movements over the centuries.
  • History of the Dutch language: Comprehensive overview of the history of Dutch.
  • History of the English Language (HEL): Access to materials dealing with the history of the English language and related areas such as Indo-European, Old English texts, and American English.
  • I'm a Catalan!: Learn about Catalonia and the Catalans.
  • ISO 639-2 Language codes: Sortable list of Language names, two and three letter codes, and locale Codes for MS Windows.
  • Ibanag Language: Ibanag Language Background. Includes texts, songs, and bibliography.
  • Ilokano (Ilocano) Language: General Information about the Iloko (Ilocano) language, 9 million speakers, N. Luzon, Philippines.
  • Imed-Translation: Discussion Group for English-Arabic Translation: Group for English-Arabic translation.
  • Indological Resources: My homepage contains an archive of Indological Resources with information mainly on Sanskrit texts and Sanskrit Studies.
  • Institut für Deutsche Sprache: Extensive information about German language: grammatical structure, research in lexicology and lexicography, collection of sound recordings of spoken German, etc.
  • Introduction to Danish Grammar: Introduction to Danish Grammar in English.
  • Inttranews: Inttranews is a news site dedicated to linguists. It is currently available in English, but we intend to extend the service to other languages this year (each with language-specific news items). Our editors are all professional linguists. We screen, sort and aggregate news items from multiples sources, and produce our own exclusive reports on issues of interest or concern to linguists. Our own reports are already available in various languages. The news page can be inserted free of charge into any third-party web site as an RSS feed
  • Inuktitut Project: Learning Materials - Syllabics: A chart showing the symbols in the Inuktitut syllabary, with audio files in .mp3 format illustrating the pronunciation of each syllable in the South Baffin dialect.
  • Iventia: Information about the astur-leonese historical latin dialect in general and the extremaduran and the galaico-extremaduran languages.
  • Kapampangan Cultural Heritage Society: A club whose aim is to propagate Kapampangan, one of the 8 major languages in the Philippines.
  • Klamath / Modoc Linguistics Page: Linguistic information & resources on the Klamath-Modoc language.
  • Konkani Potpourri: Origins and Development of the Konkani Language spoken in Western parts of India.
  • Kurdish Languages and Linguistics: Resources on Kurdish languages and linguistics.
  • Laboratoire de phonitique et phonologie (U. Laval, Quibec, Canada): Data base for the study of French phonetics.
  • Lakota Language Consortium: The site provides a useful overview of the history and status of the Lakota language, describes the current revitalization initiative, and provides access to curriculum materials for young learners.
  • Language Miniatures: A site on which 900-word essays are posted once a month in which a topic relating to all aspects of language and linguistics is presented in an easily readable, non-technical way. Alternate link: http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/
  • Language Museum: Samples of 2000 world languages.
  • Languages of Our World - 123world: Official sites of languages of our world including Hindi, Tamil, Irish, Japanese, Malay, Sanskrit, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Farsi, German, French, Latin, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, an alphabetic listing of languages Sites.
  • Languages of Zambia: Bibliographic info of books and articles on Zambian languages.
  • Languages spoken in Mauritius: Page with links to information about the various languages or past and present Mauritius.
  • Langwij Jumieka: The world's first and most comprehensive bilingual Jamaican/English website
  • Latin American Network Information Center: Links to resources for those interested in languages spoken in Latin America
  • Laz language: You can find information about Laz people: their language, traditions, beliefs and their mythologies as well. *** If you want to learn the Laz language, you can contact the web master for further information.
  • Lazebura: All about Laz and the culture (South Caucasian, also in Turkey/Black Sea Coast).
  • Learn German: German language guide, all about how to learn German and how to speak German.
  • Learn Spanish in Cusco, Peru. Spanish immersion courses in Peru.: Spanish immersion program in Cusco, Peru, with Amauta spanish school. Spanish language courses, volunteer work, accommodation and cultural workshops in: Cusco, Sacred Valley and Manu. Study spanish in Peru.
  • Lengua Balear: Article in Spanish about the origin and the history of the Balearic language.
  • Lingo24: Arabic language paraphrasing tool.
  • Lingua Siciliana - Sicilian language: Forum per la promozione e valorizzazione della lingua siciliana.
  • Linguistic Resources for Greek translators: Broad collection of links to linguistic resources (dictionaries, glossaries, terminology databases, etc.) for Greek translators. The resources are categorised by subject and are updated on a regular basis, enabling access to the latest linguistic tools and information.
  • Linguistique coréenne: Probably the first French website devoted to Korean linguistics. Contains a glossary of Korean linguistic terminology, a list of dissertations defended in Europe, and useful links for specialists of Korean.
  • Llengua Valenciana Si: Website dedicated exclusively to the Valencian language with extensive information and resources. Orthography, verbs, grammar, etc. Also a basic on-line course of Valencian and dictionaries are available in this site.
  • Llengües del món: Classificació genètica de totes les llengües vives del món. Genetic classification of all living languages. Site in Catalan.
  • Luganda Home Page: Introduction to the standard orthography and grammar.
  • Léxico Galego: Paxina galega sobre o idioma de Galicia, Vocabularios e lexicos do carro galego (con fotos), o horreo galego (con fotos), a gaita,os peixes da Galiza,comentarios e opinions extraidos da presa galega sobre a lingua de Galicia. Exercicios de lingua, castelanismos, ortografia,
  • MCIC - Macedonian Cultural & Information Centre (UK) London: Information about Macedonia, its language, culture, art and current events.
  • MOJA Swahili Resources: A comprehensive information resource about Swahili and the cultures of East Africa.
  • Mauritian Creole - Créole Mauricien - Kreol Moricyen: Kréol Moricyen, The Language of Mauritius.
  • Mendele: Forum for Yiddish Literature and Yiddish Language: Moderated mailing list and literary supplement for Yiddish Mendele is a list dedicated to the lively exchange of views, information, etc. and related to Yiddish language and literature.
  • Michigamea: John Koontz University of Colorado Home Page: Information on Michigamea language once spoken in Illinois and speculation on its relation to Siouan.
  • MuturZikin - Linguistic maps / Cartes linguistiques [en][fr][eu][es]: Linguistic maps of Europe, Africa, South and Central America, Canada and Basque Country. We provide useful and practical information for thousands languages displayed on specific geographic areas
  • N'ko Institute: This page is dedicated to the exploration of N'Ko, and all the speakers of the "Clear Language" of Manden.
  • NedWeb: On line information system on Dutch language and literature.
  • Neder-L: Electronic journal for students and scholars of Dutch linguistics and Dutch literature.
  • New system of linguistics: Some specialists consider that this system is that some when was searched (unresulted, as known) by structuralists and investigators of other inclinations of linguistics and philosophy or at least some part of this system.
  • Noun Classification in Swahili: Searchable index of the swahili database, as well as a report on a two-phase study of the semantics and syntax of noun classification in Swahili by Ellen Contini-Morava.
  • Nuristan: A site on the Nuristani group of Indo-European languages
  • Occitan: Information about Occitan (in Occitan, English, and French).
  • Office de la langue française: La representation de la norme dans les pratiques terminologiques et lexicographiques.
  • On Some Scythian and Sarmatian Symbols: A new portion of Scythian and Sarmatian records is investigated in this article. The inscriptions help to illuminate some Scythian, Sarmatian and Slavonic religious beliefs. Here the field materials of the South Russian folkloric-ethnographic expedition under the leadership of Sergei V. Rjabchikov collected in 2003 are used.
  • On-line Interactive Reference Grammar of Russian: An on-line reference grammar of Russian with animated word-formation and self-testing.
  • Orthography of the Valencian language: Full orthography of the Valencian language with practical examples for learning. In Valencian.
  • Plataforma Normes d' el Puig: This site about the Valencian language includes a large report about the current situation of the idiom.
  • Portal de l'Aragonés: Portal about the Aragonese language. Resource index (webs, forums, lists, electronic publications, chats) and general information about the language (history, grammar, law, bibliography, recognition, associations, books, editorials, media...).
  • Reflect your views on Hindi-Urdu Verbs: Linguists are hereby invited to reflect their views and share curiosities, doubts and vagueness regarding Hindi-Urdu Verbal sequences.
  • Research in Yoruba Language and Literature: The journal publishes articles on Yoruba language, literature and culture both in West Africa and in the Diaspora.
  • Resources for Text, Speech and Language Processing: This is a collection of resources in a variety of fields related to text, speech and language processing. These include computational linguistics, information retrieval and machine learning. Here you can find pointers to useful Web sites, as well as lists of relevant books, newsgroups and mailing lists, and much more.
  • Resources for Valencian: This is a selection of resources and organisations available on the Internet regarding the Valencian language. Includes a short introduction on the Valencian. Web page in English.
  • Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia - Ladinia dolomitica: Site of the central Rhaeto-Romance (i.e. Dolomitic Ladin) section of the so called "RID-Schedario", a commented bibliography periodically published in the Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia. Site structure: introduction, formal aspects, collaborators; titles (books, articles) to be reviewed; index nominum, index locorum; already published items; preview next number.
  • Romani Linguistics Page: The site provides general information, downloadable publications, sound samples, and a grammatical database of numerous Romani varieties.
  • Sami Language Resources: Learn about the Sami language group. Learn North Sami, Anár Sami, and Skolt Sami.
  • Searchable database of Swahili: Database of Swahili by Excite.
  • Sheng Language: A work dedicated to the preservation and de-mystifying of the Sheng Language - a language spoken in Nairobi and largely used in other regions of Kenya as well as other parts of eastern Africa.
  • Shingazidja Homepage: A homepage for people interested in learning about the Bantu dialect of the Comoros Island, Shingazidja.
  • Shoshone Language Homepage: Grammatical and literary materials produced by and for the Shoshone language classes taught at Idaho State University.
  • Sinhala Language page: Global resources for the Sinhala language.
  • Siraiki: Siraiki is an old language of Indus valley .Now its area is centeral Pakistan (south asia).It is supposed that siraiki belongs with indo-aryan family of languages ,but according to new research ,this language belongs with Austro-Asiatic languages' family .Its main group is Munda family group and its base is in Mundari language ,because Munda tribes were first inhabitants of indus valley and several languages of Pakistan are Munda oriented languages like Siraiki and Sindhi
  • Sk'op Sotz'leb: an On-line Grammar of Zinacantec Tzotzil (Mayan): Includes sample dialogues and audio files.
  • Software in Valencian: Software and computer programs in Valencian. Free and easy to install. Messenger 6, zip, music, e-mail, etc.
  • Spanish Translation Help: This site is dedicated to helping translators understand the freelance translation business and how to use their linguistic skills to build a successful business. Tips and techniques are freely available on the site, as well as through a free monthly newsletter.
  • Speech Accent Archive: Contains hundreds of English accents from native and non-native speakers and their phonetic transcriptions. Sound files and phonological generalizations are included.
  • Staropolska: A polyglot website concerning the first poem composed in Polish.
  • Sumerian Language Page: Includes a lexicon of over 1,100 Sumerian logograms and a paper on The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process; also maps, proverbs.
  • Swedish Sign Language: Research, teaching and lectures in Swedish sign language.
  • TERMCAT, Centre de Terminologia: Official terminology centre for Catalan language.
  • Thai Language Page: Information on various aspects of Thai language, and basic Thai phrases with audio files.
  • The Breton language in education in France: Online regional dossier on the Breton language in education in France. The regional dossiers are one of the products of Mercator Education (www.mercator-education.org). Regional dossiers aim at providing concise descriptive information and basic educational statistics about minority language education in a specific region of the European Union. This kind of information, such as features of the educational system, recent educational policies, division of responsibilities, main actors, legal arrangements, support structures, and also quantitative information on the number of schools, teachers, pupils and financial investments, can serve several purposes. If you want to read the dossiers of the other European minority languages go to www.mercator-education.org.
  • The Chechen language: Grammatical and other information for Chechen, including an on-line searchable dictionary (Nakh-Daghestanian or East Caucasian language family).
  • The Dacian Language: A description of the Dacian language, an ancient language of the Balkans.
  • The Etruscan Cryptolect: A new theory on the origin of the Etruscan Language.
  • The Finnish Language: Who's afraid of Finnish?
  • The Ingush language: Grammatical and other information for the Ingush language (Nakh-Daghestanian or East Caucasian language family. Includes an on-line searchable dictionary.
  • The Lak Language: A Quick Reference: A brief and sketchy description of Lak, an Central East Caucasian language. It includes areal information, a grammar section and a fully glossed sample text.
  • The Language Contact Website: The site contains brief explanation about language contact phenomena, accompanied by case studies with examples, including transcription and sound, and discussion.
  • The Lex Files: A resource of word sites that provide links to various vocabulary links.
  • The Lycian Language: This page describes the Lycian A language.
  • The Messapic Language: A description of Messapic, an ancient language of the Balkans.
  • The Picene Language: A description of Picene, a language (or languages) spoken in ancient Italy.
  • The Sanskrit Web Site: Site in English/Spanish with tons of knowledge about Sanskrit, Trika and Meditation.
  • The Survey of English Usage: The Survey of English Usage based at the University College London.
  • The Translation Guide: The Translation Guide was developed to provide real world advice from industry experts. The team behind The Translation Guide have over 10 years experience in creating and managing award winning global websites including experience with the worlds best known translation websites.
  • The Umbrian Language: A description of Umbrian, a language spoken in ancient Italy
  • The Venetic Language: A description of Ventic, an ancient language of northeastern Italy and Slovenia.
  • The web's largest collection of Polish and English dictionaries and glossaries, translators on-line resources.: Polish and English dictionaries, glossaries, and resources for translators. Terminology and translation tools.
  • Thesaurus of Persian Words: A thesaurus of Persian (Farsi) words and expressions.
  • Tibetan Dialects Project: Synchronic and diachronic descriptions of Tibetan dialects.
  • Tribal Languages of Jharkhand: First Tribal & Indigenous website of Jharkhand, India.
  • Trouble with Indian Names: Writers who use the English language to write about India are always faced with a dilemma on how best to spell the Indian names. A brief summary of common problems is listed here.
  • Tundra Nenets: Description of the Tundra Nenets language.
  • Udi Online Grammar: A comprehensive description of Udi (East Cauacsian) from a functional, typological (in parts cognitive) point of view, including audio samples, texts with glosses.
  • Valencia to World: Information in Spanish and Valencian about the Valencian language, Valencian linguistics, grammatical and phonetic questions. Also you can see a large photographic file of the great manifestation on June 1997 on the streets of Valencia city that congregated to half a million people by the Valencian language.
  • Valencian: Basic information in English about the legal status of the Valencian language.
  • Valencian language sites: English, Spanish, French and Valencian-language sites and institutions featuring information on the Valencian language. Web site in English.
  • Valencianlanguage.com: This international site for the Valencian language is a project of the Section of Language and Literature of the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture for the international promotion of the Valencian. E-books, articles, studies, news, resources, links and full information about the Valencian. Web versions in English, Spanish, German, French and Valencian.
  • Valencià d'Elig: Dedicated to the Valencian language spoken in the Valencian area of Elig. General and local documentation about the Valencian. Web versions in Spanish and Valencian.
  • Verb Index to Levin (1993): Index from English Verb Classes And Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, by Beth Levin.
  • Virtual Livonia: The only web-page in the world dedicated exclusively to Livonian, Livonia and Livs.
  • Wir Ain Leid: Introduction to modern Scots Grammar.
  • Xhosa on the web: Basic translators from English to Xhosa to English.
  • englishcollection.com: www.englishcollection.com is a small educational search engine designed for learning about british and american literature, history and culture. However, the humanities search engine lists audio and video lectures on linguistics.
  • i-Friesland: A Frisian meeting-place: For the exchange of language, genealogical, and cultural information between Frisians worldwide.
  • kurd-lal: an on-line dictionary
  • linguaturka.com: Information and dictionaries of Turkic languages such as Turkish, Turkmen, Azeri, Ottoman, Tatar, Uyghur.
  • translateandsave.com: Translations - English and Spanish. Free resources: Human translation, revision of texts written in Spanish (up to 1,000 characters,roughly 200 words), online translator and dictionary.


Writing Systems

  • Ancient Baybayin Scripts Network: The Ancient Baybayin Scripts Network(ABSN) is a community of open forum academic exchange & discussion on the ancient writing scripts & writing systems of the Philippines.We welcome new diverse perspectives on news and updates on the current situation of Baybayin(Alibata)scripts of today.Enjoy learning and writing Baybayin in the many languages of the Philippines. The Alibata forum brings unique,rare, and diverse topics about Ivatan syntax, Igorot Studies, Hanunoo-Mangyan poetry, Kinaray-a semantics, ambahan, computer fonts, ethnobotany, ethnopoetics, Surat Mangyan, Philippine ethnolinguistic groups, epigraphy, ethnomedicine, Aklanon phonetics, Bisayan genetic classification, Pangasinan grammar, Sambal proverbs, Agta linguistics, Ilonggo morphology, Mindanao news, & Lumad tribes. We encourage new opportunities to interact with others in learning new languages with different syllabic, alphabetic, & logographic writing systems & see how it affected the evolution of baybayin scripts. We are a unique group that advocates unity in topics of Cebuano phonology, Kapampangan Studies, Ilokano lexicography, Waray language, Hiligaynon literature, ethnosphere, Austronesian Studies, orthography, paleography, calligraphy,& Bicolano ethnomusicology. We appreciate any advertisements for nonprofit virtual activism & resources that promotes advocacy for linguistic rights , ancestral rights, cultural rights, and indigenous rights. Join us in the research in Austronesian genetics, migrations, navigation, cultural survival, and human rights that affect the greater understanding of the Austronesian Diaspora and baybayin. We encourage new methods on deciphering archaelogical baybayin artifacts, pottery, inscriptions, rock art, petroglyphs, and pictograph characters found throughout the Philippine Islands. The ABSN is your networking community where we begin our travel together into new journeys of Baybayin knowledge,& where the celebrations of network friendships and respect never ends.
  • Ancient Scripts.com: This site provides very comprehensive information on ancient writing systems.
  • Greek Inscriptions from Sardis: Bilingual Greek and Lydian translations as well as Greek inscriptions translated into English.
  • Iberian Epigraphy Page: Set of pages on the state of the art of the knowledge on the ancient Iberian language with selected bibliography, and an anthlogy of texts (some commented). It has also some information on other Palaeohispanic languages and has updated sign tables of the Eastern Iberian, South Iberian, Sudlusitanian-Tartessian, an Celtiberian scripts.
  • Omniglot: A handy online reference to over 160 alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems.
  • Rongorongo, Easter Island Writing: Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a remote islet in the Pacific Ocean, keeps many secrets. The real hieroglyphic script, rongorongo, is a feature of its ancient culture. Sergei V. Rjabchikov succeeded in decoding these mysterious characters. His papers are published below. A new article is called
  • SignWriting: Writing Sign languages.
  • Sound and Light: The Sanskrit Primer of Metaphysics: This site is being written, and shall unfold the true meaning of the Sanskrit language as it arises out of the meanings of the composite sounds. This unfoldment will rely upon the inquiry native to a seeker after metaphysical truth, so that the metaphysics of advaita Vedanta will become minutely understood from the sound and letter up to the word, the grammar, the syntax, the sloka, the work of Scriptural wisdom at hand, the reality and the universal truth being understood through the phonetics of Sanskrit.
  • Trouble with Indian Names: Writers who use the English language to write about India are always faced with a dilemma on how best to spell the Indian names. A brief summary of common problems is listed here.

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