Links

Particular language families or language areas:

• One of my main interests these days is the TIBETO-BURMAN language family, one of two main branches of Sino-Tibetan. There are a number of good sites dealing with these languages and the people who speak them. First try John Peterson's useful site, which lots of bibliographic information organized by language, which you can go to by clicking here. Some linguists working in the region have interesting sites from which you can download current research on the TB languages, most especially Balthasar Bickel and Randy LaPolla. Check out also the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary & Thesaurus project run by Jim Matisoff at UC Berkeley, George van Driem's Himalayan Languages Project, and the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon, which has a lot of useful information together with free fonts for use in writing Tibetan, Burmese, and other languages. Scott DeLancey, also at the University of Oregon, has site with information about Tibeto-Burman and other language families. Jean Robert Opgenort has a very nice site on two Kiranti languages Wambule and Jero, including online dictionaries, and Mark Turin has put his Thangmi-Nepali-English dictionary on web. Also new is the Digital Himalaya site at the University of Cambridge. In addition, the Babel site run by Sergei Starostin has an online Sino-Tibetan etymological dictionary created by Starostin and Ilia Pejros, as well as several dictionaries of Kiranti languages. Also, be sure to check out the online journal Himalayan Linguistics.
• Also Himalayan, though not Sino-Tibetan, are the Nuristân languages and people, about which an excellent site is maintained by Richard Strand.
• You should check out the webpage of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas for information about NATIVE AMERICAN languages.
• Those interested in INDO-EUROPEAN linguistics should definitely check out Deborah Anderson's Indo-European homepage and the site of the University of Texas' Center for Indo-European Language and Culture. Piotr Gasiorowski maintains a useful set of pages on Indo-European phonology and grammar.
• Those interested in CELTIC LANGUAGES should check out the Harvard Celtic links. See also the Modern Celtic Languages site, and e-Keltoi, a new interdisciplinary journal of Celtic studies.
• Doris Payne maintains a fine site on the MAASAI [Maa] language: click here.
• For information about the HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, check out the History of the English Language Homepage. For additional links, see my Internet Resources for the History of English. William Labov and his associates maintain a site on the Atlas of North American English. See also the University of Georgia's Linguistic Atlas Projects.
• Stanford University maintains a useful site on Pidgin and Creole Languages.

Linguistic resources:

• Follow this link to Stanford University's "Linguistics, Natural Language, and Computational Linguistics Meta-index", a comprehensive set of links to sites in linguistics..
• The Summer Institute of Linguistics has a lot of useful and interesting stuff, including some free stuff. Be sure to check out the Ethnologue at this site.
• The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project maintains OREL: Online Resources for Endangered Languages, containing links to web resources on revitalising or documenting endangered languages, including links on language endangerment and revitalisation, technology and techniques, ethical issues, and funding sources.
• The Linguist List has conference announcements, job listings, and much more. Especially nice is the Language and Language Family Information page.
• The Konstanz Universals Archive contains, not surprisingly, a UNIVERSALS archive and links to other linguistic databases.
• Ljuba Veselinova maintains a unique and useful site on language maps and map creation sites. She also maintains a page with links to dictionaries, grammatical descriptions, and language corpora.
• Already mentioned is the Tower of Babel, an international etymological database project, containing a number of online dictionaries.
• Alan Slotkin maintains an extensive list of links on his page Language and Literature Links. Also worth noting is the UCLA Language Materials Project, which provides annotated lists of teaching resources for less commonly taught languages.
• Mark Rosenfelder maintains a site with numbers one to ten in over 4500 languages.
• Jennifer Runner maintains a site with many links to sites on dictionaries, grammars, and other online language resources.

Writing systems:

• Ancient Scripts of the World is an interesting site with lots of information on linguistic topics. Alphabet Street has lots of information about European, ex-Soviet, and Amerindian languages and scripts. Lots of links can be found there. For lots of links to sites on writing systems and typefaces, jump to my Links on Writing Systems and Fonts page and the SIL's Sites on Scripts and Writing Systems. The site Languages and Scripts of India provides a wealth of information and links about South Asian scripts.
• Christopher Harvey maintains a very useful site, LanguageGeek, containing fonts for Native American languages and practical discussions on Unicode and OpenType fonts.
• The Punctuation Project Homepage provides information about punctuation. Check out also our own Al Krahn's Punctuation Underdog Page for discussion and links.
• The Unicode Homepage explains the Unicode and provides information about orthographic systems which have been assigned, or which are in line to be assigned, Unicode encoding.

Phonetics:

• There are a number of resources dealing with PHONETICS available on the web. By going to the site of Peter Ladefoged of UCLA, you can listen to sound files with pronunciations of the sounds of the IPA. Check out also the Phonetics and Linguistics Dept. at the University College London, the Institute for Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam, and Studying Phonetics on the Net.

Syntax:

• Mirjam Fried maintains a fine site on Construction Grammar; see also Paul Kay's site from which some papers important to this approach to grammatical description can be downloaded.

Last modified 9/25/05