Links of Interest

Languages of the World

 Here are some of the primary resources:

• Library of Congress: Country Studies
• United Nations Population Information Network
• Indigenous Studies WWW Virtual Library
• The Human-Languages Page
• Yamada Language Guides
• Foreign Language Resources on the Web
• The World Language Resource
• The Language Hub
• Online language resources
• The Creolist Archives
• Electronic Texts, Dictionaries and Data
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries and Grammars
• Online Language Dictionaries and Translators
• List of Dictionaries
• Free Online Language Courses
• American Sign Language Browser
• Animated American Sign Language Dictionary
• European Centre for Minority Issues
• For a different approach to language classification look at The Linguasphere.
• TerraLingua Language Endangerment, Survival, and Revitalization

Area-specific resources:

• Americas
  • SIL's Living Languages of the Americas
  • North America, Central America, Caribbean, and South America via City.Net
  • Latin American Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • Indigenous Resources for Central America, South America, Caribbean
  • For information on dictionaries and other learning aids for some of the languages of North America, see The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
  • Native American Language Resources on the Internet
• Africa
  • Africa Online
  • African Studies WWW (U. Penn))
  • Africa: Languages and Software
  • Africa Research Central, A clearinghouse of African primary sources
  • Africa South of the Sahara
  • The Electronic African Bookworm
  • Indigenous Resources for Africa
• Europe
  • Russian and East European Studies WWW Virtual Libraryy
  • Indigenous Resources for Europe
  • European minority languages
  • Central Europe Online
• Asia
  • Asiaco the Asia search engine
  • Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • Indigenous Resources for Asia and the Middle East
  • European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL), online resources related to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea
• Pacific
  • Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • Australian Indigenous Languages
  • Indigenous Resources for the Pacific

Other sites of interest

• Altavista translations
• Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 4,500 Languages
• Words and phrases in various languages
• More links to phrases in various languages
• Genealogy sites on the Internet

Language coding and standards

• The official site of the ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee
• Registration authority for ISO 639-2 (three-letter codes)
• ISO 639-2 Alpha-3 codes (also includes the normative text of the standard)
• Changes to ISO 639-x codes
• RFC 1766: IETF protocol for language identifiers on the Internet
• Current set of tags registered per RFC1766

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