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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.
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu
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.
members.aol.com
UCLA Language Materials Project Index Pages
Information on less-commonly taught languages.
www.lmp.ucla.edu
A different world language is examined each week. Includes archives of past weeks.
thor.prohosting.com
Introduction to the major language families, including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic.
www.krysstal.com
Extensive information and web links on languages.
babel.uoregon.edu
The World's Top Twenty Spoken Languages
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.
www.cftech.com
Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples from the rarer languages.
www.ling.helsinki.fi
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.
www.elite.net
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.www.yourdictionary.com
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.
www.ethnologue.com
Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.
www.language-museum.com
Maps of the various language families, with background reference material, based on Encyclopaedia Britannica material.
home.wanadoo.nl
Mini-essays about human language in its endless kaleidoscope of aspects.
home.bluemarble.net
Barrett Translations' Language 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.
www.btranslations.com