Language Links

Links that lead to off-site pages about language, languages, linguistics, and related topics.

Books

• Greatest books. These are the opinions of a person or a set of person. They're starting points to get people to think and talk about what they read. Make your own list.
  • 100 Best [http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best.html]. Including the 100 best novels and the 100 best nonfiction books. They make the list themselves, but they also have ones built from reader polls.
  • 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man's Library [http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/]. As picked by four folks. The cool thing is that for each book they have a picture and a few notes.
  • 1001beforeyoudie.com. Based upon the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, which was compiled by over 100 literary critics.
  • 50 best cult books [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html]. As "a cult" following as opposed to "occult".
  • All-Time 100 Novels [http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html]. Two critics pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
  • One Book List. A list of books if you could only vote for one book.
  • The Harvard Classics and The Shelf of Fiction [bartleby.com/hc/]. 'The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.'
  • Top 100 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml]. According to a poll by the BBC in 2003.
  • Top 100 Books [http://www.harvard.com/onourshelves/top100.html]. According to the staff at the Harvard Book Store.
  • Top 100 EBooks [gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top]. Based upon download counts.
  • Waterstone's Top 100 Books Of The Century [http://home.comcast.net/~antaylor1/waterstones100.html]. Based upon a 1997 poll by Waterstone, a UK bookstore chain.
• iscellany
  • Amazon.com
  • Bartleby.com. Quotations, classical references, etc. online.
  • BL.uk.
    • ' The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest libraries. '
    • The Gutenberg Bible online. ' On this site you will find the British Library's two copies of Johann Gutenberg's Bible, the first real book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s.'
  • Classics.MIT.edu. Internet Classics Archive. Over 400 classical works in full text! An MIT collection, mostly Greek and Roman with some Chinese and Persian.
  • Gutenburg.net. "Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts)."
  • John Lenz's Classical Resources
  • Literature.org. Literature online.
  • New York Times Best Seller List [nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller].
  • Online Books Page. Over 17,000 books online.

Book Sellers

• AbeBooks.com. 'the world's largest online marketplace for books. Whether it's new, used, rare, or out-of-print, you can find it here, through our community of over 13,000 independent booksellers selling 70 million books from around the globe.'
• Amazon.com
• BiblioFind.com. Old and rare books.
• BN.com. Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
• BookFinder.com. 'Over 80 million new, used, rare, and out of print books at your fingertips.'
• Powellls.com.

Sign Language or Signing

• References
  • ASLInfo.com. ' This website focuses on ASL, Interpreting and deaf related information. '
  • DeafLibrary.org. 'The Deaf Resource Library (in ASL: D-R-L or DEAF-LIBRARY; http://www.deaflibrary.org) is a virtual library -- an online collection of reference material and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States; as well as deaf and hard of hearing related topics. While I have a bias towards cultural Deaf models, I am also trying to include more material about hard of hearing issues as well.'
    • About American Sign Language
  • Free online American Sign Language (ASL) browser. 'Welcome to Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site, an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them.'
  • SignWithMe.com. Quick access to videos of common sign
• Miscellany
  • "Parenting: Baby Sign Language"
  • SigningBaby.com. ' Teaching children Sign or signs before they learn to speak can inspire them to learn spoken language earlier, which is a blessing for many parents. Apparently the use of signs gets many children to enjoy communication, and take it to another level - the spoken word. '

Touch Typing, Keyboarding

This is a basic skill that everyone should know. Learn to do it for free.

• Learn2Type.com
• SenseLang.com
• TypingPal.com

Translators

• AjaxTrans [ajax.parish.ath.cx/translator]. Translates as you type.
• AllWords.com Multi-lingual dictionary.
• babelfish.altavista.com. Translates blocks of text or even entire web pages.
• Dictionaries.TravLang.com.  German, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, French, Frisian, Spanish, Afrikaans, Portugese, Hungarian, Italian, Czech, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Esperanto, Latin, Turkish.
• FreeDict.com. Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish.
• Google.com/language_tools. Like Alta Vista's babelfish plus more.
• Leo [dict.leo.org]. A German-English/French/Spanish online dictionary.
• Lingo24.com. A translation company with some free online services. Good use of unicode on their site.
  • ContexTrans. As of 2007-01: 'Our system currently supports English to Arabic, Arabic to English, English to Chinese, and Chinese to English translations. More language combinations will be available in the future.'
• SysTranSoft.com. A product but they also do some stuff online.
• WordReference.com. An English-Spanish-French-Italian dictionary.
• YourDictionary.com. Probably the most languages, with many links.

Wikipedia

• Grammar
  • Traditional subfields
    • Morphology (linguistics). Word structure. A morpheme is the smallest lingual unit that carries a semantic interpretation. Synthetic languages (EG: Indo-European languages) have a high morpheme-per-word ratio and rely heavily on morphology.
    • Syntax. The rules of word combinations into phrases and sentences. Analytic languages (EGs: Chinese and Bulgarian) have a low morpheme-per-word ratio and rely heavily on syntax.
  • Other subfields
    • Phonetics. Studies the sounds of the human voice.
    • Phonology. Studies the sounds of specific languages.
    • Semantics. The meaning expressed by language.
    • Pragmatics. The gap between the meaning of the words, the speaker's meaning, and influence of context in interpretation.
  • English grammar.
• International Phonetic Alphabet
  • IPA chart for English
  • Consonant
  • Vowel
• ISO 639. An international standard for codes that identify languages.
• Language
  • Language family
    • Indo-European languages
    • Sino-Tibetan languages
• Linguistics

Miscellany

• About.com on different languages
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish
• AncientScripts.com. ' The aim of Ancient Scripts is not to replace texts books or instructional web sites. Instead, it is designed to give an introduction to writing systems, which hopefully will tantalize the reader into searching for more information on the web or in books and publications. '
• Cherokee Language Lessons [Powersource.com/cocinc/language/]
• Cojak Hanzi Dictionary [cojak.org]. "It is a Chinese dictionary, a Japanese dictionary, and a Hanzi dictionary among its other uses."
• English Flashcards [english-flashcards.com]. Online flashcards for English-speakers learning other languages.
• French-Word-a-Day.typepad.com.
• ISO 639
• JewishEncyclopedia.com.
  • More than just Yiddish.
  • 'This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.'
• Krysstal.com/langfams.html. About language families.
• lingomatch.com. Interesting concept. It's based on specific cities and it helps you hook up with speakers of other languages so you can practice.
• Linguist.org
  • Ask A Linguist
• Wikiwords.org. 'a collaborative project to create a dictionary of all terms in all languages with definitions and example sentences. It is maintained and sponsored by the professional translators of ProZ.com.'

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