Aboriginal Languages of Australia - There are more than 200 Australian indigenous languages. About 20 languages are strong, but endangered: the others have been destroyed, live in the memories of the elderly, or are being revived by their communities. This site has annotated links to 180 resources for about 60 languages. About 25% of these resources are produced or published by indigenous people.
Acronym Finder - Look up 107,800 acronyms/abbreviations and their meanings.
American Dialect Society - Dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it.
Ancient Scripts of the World - Writing systems, bibliography, sounds and phonetics, resource links, historical linguistics.
Banished Words List - Lake Superior State University's Annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.
Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Melissa Bernstein) - Old English sermon with manuscript image, texts, translation; good for learning to read Old English script.
Ethnologue - A catalogue of the world's 6,912 known languages. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families.
Foreignword.com - On-line dictionaries and glossaries, translators tools, translation memories, machine translation and more.
Forvo - The largest word pronunciation dictionary in the world, now with translations. All the words in all the languages pronounced by native speakers.
HandSpeak - An exploration of imagery language and visual communications, cultures and arts.
Hebraica Team - Catalogs books written in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic, and any other language using the Hebrew alphabet - everything from medieval biblical commentaries to contemporary Israeli poetry.
iLoveLanguages - Catalog of language-related Internet resources - over 2000 links.
inogolo -
Devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people, places, and miscellaneous stuff.
The site contains a searchable database of names with both phonetic and audio pronunciations in English.
Jewish Language Research Website - Presents contacts, descriptions, and basic bibliographies for the following languages: Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Jewish English, Jewish Malayalam, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-French, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Iranian, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Portuguese, Judeo-Provençal, Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo/Ladino, Yiddish.
Klingon Language Institute - Those bumpy headed aliens of Star Trek really have their own language, one which has far outgrown mere television and film. The Klingon Language Institute continues its mission of bringing together individuals interested in the study of Klingon linguistics and culture, and providing a forum for discussion and the exchange of ideas.
Language Policy Website and Emporium - James Crawford's reporting on the English Only movement, English Plus, bilingual education, efforts to save endangered languages, and language rights in the USA.
Living Swahili Dictionary - New dictionaries of the Swahili language, both within Swahili and between Swahili and English. Swahili is the most widely spoken African language, with 50 million speakers in East Africa and Central Africa, particularly in Tanzania (including Zanzibar) and Kenya.
Modern Language Association (MLA) -
Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. MLA members host an annual convention and other meetings, work with related organizations, and sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities.
Online Dictionary - English to Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, and Spanish translation.
Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) - An international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources.
Oxford Dictionaries - Oxford’s innovative modern English dictionary and language reference service.
Rosetta Project - The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone. In this updated iteration, the goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages. The Project's intention is to create a unique platform for comparative linguistic research and education as well as a functional linguistic tool that might help in the recovery of lost languages in unknown futures.
Silva Rhetoricae - Guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric.
Terralingua - An international NGO focussing on linguistic, biological and biocultural diversity language endangerment/survival/preservation and linguistic human rights.
Voice of America Pronunciation Guide - Audio files and pronunciation guide for thousands of names of people, places, and events found on VOA worldwide broadcasts.
Web of Online Dictionaries - Indexes online dictionaries, thesauri, and such containing words and phrases.
Word Spy, The - Devoted to recently-coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words being used in new ways.
World Wide Words - Devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution. Investigates international English from a British viewpoint.
Wordorigins.org - Devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to etymology.
WordReference.com - Translate any word in any Web page with a few quick clicks, using the Collins translating dictionaries from HarperCollins Publishing.
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