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.
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 SIL International. Also offers print and CD-ROM versions.
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.
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 - Typology of the world's languages from the Fu Jen Catholic University. In English and Chinese.
Language Families - Maps of the various language families, with background reference material, based on Encyclopaedia Britannica material.
Language Museum - Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.
Language of the Week - A different world language is examined each week. Includes archives of past weeks.
LinguaShop.com - Online shop of teaching materials on various European languages (including some quite rare ones) plus Esperanto.
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.
Muturzikin - Linguistic maps - Linguistic maps of Europe, Africa, America and Oceania. Priority is given to endangered languages and minority linguistic people.
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.
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.
Arrernte Dictionary - Small dictionary of Arrernte words for animals and objects with links to a language map of the region and additional Arrernte vocabulary lists.
Australian Aboriginal Language Material - Language materials from the Flint papers including information on symbols, abbreviations, phonemes, orthographic conventions, recording practice,s and bibliography.
Australian Indigenous Languages - Internet guide to Australian indigenous languages. Comprehensive site with dictionaries, language resources, organization contacts, wordlists, sound files and links to related sites.
Australian Linguistic Society - Details on the Australian Linguistic Society including information on membership, mailing list, projects, conferences and links to related sites.
Dyirbal in Assimilation - Essay by Jan Wohlgemut discussing the social surroundings and grammatical change of present-day Dyirbal as compared to the language Dixon described in 1968.
Experiences with Kirrkirr - Paper discussing what is desirable or necessary database technology to develop browsing interfaces to lexical databases for indigenous languages based on experiences developing such for the Kirrkirr language. [PDF]
Garawa (Garrwa) - Information on the extinct Garawa (or Garrwa) language, which used to be spoken in the Gulf of Carpentaria region close to the Northern Territory - Queensland border.
Kaurna Warra - Interactive dictionary and language data base for the Kaurna language.
Kutthung Vocabulary - Vocabulary of the Kutthung or Kattang dialect once spoken along the southern bank of the Karuah river and south shore of Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.
Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia - A facsimile version of the Martuthunira grammar is made available by the author (Alan Dench) as a set of linked PDF files. The Table of Contents, Index entries, and all internal text references to sections of the grammar, the bibliography, and language examples are links allowing quick and easy navigation. The download must be requested from the author, who will ask for some information about the requestor before sending the files.
Nhirrpi Data - A sketch grammar of Nhirrpi with bidirectional wordlists and sample sentences. The language, from South Australia, is also called Palpamadramadra and it is very close to Yandruwandha.
Yanyula - Information on the Yanyula language (phonology, grammar, etc.), traditionally spoken along the north coast of the Northern Territory and in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands.
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