Linguistics: Internet Resources

Includes primary linguistic data collected by linguists ethnologists and anthropologists. Includes sound files.

Guide to Indian Languages of California.

Online searchable dictionaries for a variety of South Asian languages.

Doulos SIL is a font that is used by many in the linguistics field. It is compatible with all IPA characters and provides appropriate spacing for the characters.

An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages.

These interactive IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) charts contain the names for all of the characters and will allow you click on them and hear the sounds that they represent.

An article archive and a community space for Linguistics.

A distribution point for research in Optimality Theory and its conceptual affiliates.

TWPL is a free online journal produced by the Linguistics Graduate Course Union (LGCU) at the University of Toronto. It publishes papers by faculty and students in theoretical and experimental linguistics.

UCLA Linguistics Department publishes materials about work conducted under the auspices of the UCLA Phonetics Lab.

Instructional materials for learning new languages. Strong especially in European and Chinese.

Free interactive 30 part German course.

Learn Spanish idioms and slang.

Site is in Italian.

Great for popular languages. Native speakers discuss grammar issues. Includes verb conjugator and lots of dictionaries.