Natural Languages Linguistics

Natural Languages Linguistics

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The Open Directory Natural Languages section organizes languages according to a genetic classification. Austro-Asiatic: Khmer, Muong, Vietnamese

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- 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.

- Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.
- Extensive information and web links on languages.
- A different world language is examined each week. Includes archives of past weeks.
- Directory of language families and individual language pages, online dictionaries, and other 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.
- Translations of one poem into 82 languages by native speakers.
- List of world language hierarchies.
- The Lord's Prayer in more than one thousand languages and dialects.
- Attempt at showing a genetic relationship among four language groups not normally thought of as related.
- 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.
- Working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone, a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages.
- 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.
- 30,000 selected links to as many as 400 different languages, plus the first internet library of multilingual parallel texts.
- Searchable information on language families, employment opportunities, publications, text and computer tools, language study and pedagogy.
- Online shop of teaching materials on various European languages (including some quite rare ones) plus Esperanto.
- List-servers for a wide variety of language studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien.
- A java applet to test your language skills in French, Spanish, German and Czech.
- Mini-essays about human language in its endless kaleidoscope of aspects.
- 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.
- Information on less-commonly taught languages.
- Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples from the rarer languages.
- 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.
- 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.
- Maps of the various language families, with background reference material, based on Encyclopaedia Britannica material.
- A description of major world languages and language families, with links.
- 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.

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