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BBC: Languages
 
Resources for learning French, German, Spanish, and Italian, including sound files, vocabulary lists, quizzes, and cultural notes. Also includes limited resources for other languages such as Welsh, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
Topics: Language
Last updated Dec 28, 2004
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Search this database by country or name of language. You'll find out how many people speak a language, what languages are similar, and in which countries the language is spoken. More than 6,800 languages spoken in 230 countries. The Name Index lists over 41,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names. The Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families.
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
Topics: Language
Last updated May 30, 2005
iLoveLanguages
A directory of "Internet resources related to language learning, education, and use." Includes links to "online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools," and more. Searchable and browsable.
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
Topics: Language
Last updated May 30, 2005
Language and Culture Pages
Read "language histories, review foreign language alphabets and foreign language grammar, hear foreign language pronunciation from native speakers, play foreign language games, learn foreign language vocabulary," and more. Includes survival phrases. From Transparent.com.
http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/languages.htm
Topics: Dictionaries, Language
Last updated May 30, 2005
LingNet: The Global Language Network
This site from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center hosts "the 'Countries in Perspective' series [country profiles and history] and the Global Language Online Support System (GLOSS) [language lessons for 10 languages]." Also includes online language courses for selected languages important to the U.S. defense, and links to related language sites.
http://www.lingnet.org
Topics: Language, Regions of the World
Last updated Sep 22, 2005
The Linguist List
Comprehensive, annotated directory of linguistics and language resources maintained by the Linguist List. Covers The Profession (conferences, association, funding, jobs), Research (papers, dissertation abstracts, projects, bibliographies, topics, texts), Publications , Pedagogy , Language resources (language families, dictionaries, regional data), and Computer support (fonts, software, SGML & TEI, MOOs & MUDs, citing sources, and more).
http://www.linguistlist.org/
Topics: Language, Social Science
Last updated May 30, 2005
The 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," fifty to ninety percent of which are predicted to disappear in the next century. The site provides classification information (searchable, or browsable by language name, country, or language family) for hundreds of languages, audio samples of selected languages, and more. A project of the Long Now Foundation.
http://www.rosettaproject.org/
Topics: Language
Last updated Sep 15, 2008
Texts in Context
"Texts in Context is a rich and unusual collection of over 400 British Library texts. ... These 'everyday' texts illustrate the many histories -- social, cultural, economic, political, technical -- within which language is used and produced. [It includes] a whole range of characters: cooks, clerks, publishers, tradesmen, lexicographers, sea captains, smugglers and quack doctors, to name a few." Find introductory essays and book excerpts. (Audio not available.) From the British Library.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/texts/context.html
Topics: Language, Literature & Books
Last updated Jul 29, 2009
Where Do Languages Come From?
This Merritt Ruhlen essay explores the origins of languages throughout the world. Contains information on language families, theories of interaction and borrowing, Sir William Jones, and why the original African language "is considered to be the original fully modern language." Also features audio clips and etymology activities. From the San Francisco Exploratorium.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/
Topics: Language
Last updated May 30, 2005
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