There is a wealth of internet resources available for the study of the history of English. The following represent a sampling of some of the better sites. The Georgetown Old English Pages and the History of the English Language site are probably the premier sites at the moment.

History of the English Language

There is, of course, the inevitable Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_language

The site below is a fine site with lots of links.

http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html

The Historical Grammar of the Old English Language

The following page provides information about Old English grammar:

http://members.tripod.com/babaev/archive/grammar41.html

Indo-European Origins of English

Check out Deborah Anderson's site on Indo-European:

http://www.indo-european.org/

The University of Texas has a very interesting and informative site:

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/ARD.html

Check out also Piotr Gasiorowski's site on IE:

http://www.geocities.com/caraculiambro/

The following page provides information on Indo-European roots.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/IEroots.html

Be sure to check out also the "Indo-European Resources" page, which contains lots of interesting links:
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/indoeuro.html

The following site contains useful information on the Germanic languages:

http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html

The following site provides Paternosters [the Lord's Prayer] in various ancient Germanic languages:

http://sps.k12.mo.us/khs/gmcling/gmc.htm

Other Resources for the History of English

Large numbers of useful links can be found at each of these sites:

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/oldenglish.html

http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/4301w98/linglinx/oe.html

http://www.bluerider.com/english/

http://gemini.tntech.edu/~aslotkin/LANGLIT.HTML#History

http://www.lowlands-l.net/

"Old English Graphotactics": This site is dedicated to editions of Old English texts that include the graphotactics of original manuscripts, and to studies of those texts.

http://faculty.washington.edu/stevickr/graphotactics/

Old English Lessons & Tutorials

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Medieval_Studies/lessons/

http://lonestar.texas.net/%7Ejebbo/learn-as/contents.htm

http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/OEA/index.html

Middle English Texts:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html

Middle English Resources, including cultural resources

Includes maps, bios: interesting sites. Contain links pages also.

http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/

History of English Phonemes

The site below was "designed to help students of the English language trace the development of the phonemes of English from the Old English period into Present-Day English."

http://www.furman.edu/~wrogers/phonemes/

English Dialect Links:

Again, the Wikipedia, and the references that are provided there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language

Below is the site of the TELSUR project of the University of Pennsylvania, containing the Phonological Atlas of North America:

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html

The following site contains recordings of sounds and intonation patterns of a number of English dialects around the world, as well as recordings of a number of other languages:

http://www.fonetiks.org/

Creole links:

The URLs below contain links to many sites relating to pidgin and creole languages.

http://www.english.uga.edu/~spcl/home.html

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/messeas/handouts/pjcreol/node1.html

The English-only Movement

The following is very political, but has some interesting quotes & facts.

http://www.workings.com/LIA_His.htm

The following is a link to the site of US English, an advocacy organization for making English the official language of the United States:

http://www.us-english.org/

Anyone interested in evaluating the arguments of the English-only Movement should take a look at the following article by Geoffrey Nunberg:

http://www.prospect.org/print/V8/33/nunberg-g.html

Celtic Links:

http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Bureau/8759/langlinks/celtic.html#irish

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/index.html

Phonetics Resources

Click below to hear Peter Ladefoged, a well-known phonetician at UCLA, pronounce all the odd phonetic symbols on the IPA chart.

http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter1/chapter1.html

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