Web Directory

» Convent of Pater Noster
   The Lord's Prayer in more than one thousand languages and dialects.
   http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/

» Ethnologue
   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.
   http://www.ethnologue.com/

» Jennifer's Language Page
   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.
   http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/

» LMBM: Table of Contents
   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.
   http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/

» Language Families
   Typology of the world's languages from the Fu Jen Catholic University. In English and Chinese.
   http://www.ling.fju.edu.tw/typology/

» Language Museum
   Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.
   http://www.language-museum.com/

» Language of the Week
   A different world language is examined each week. Includes archives of past weeks.
   http://thor.prohosting.com/~linguist/language.html

» LinguaShop.com
   Online shop of teaching materials on various European languages (including some quite rare ones) plus Esperanto.
   http://www.linguashop.com/

» Multilingual Data Bank
   Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples from the rarer languages.
   http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/uhlcs/

» Muturzikin - Linguistic maps
   Linguistic maps of Europe, Africa, America and Oceania. Priority is given to endangered languages and minority linguistic people.
   http://www.muturzikin.com/

» The Human-Languages Page
   The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The over 1900 links in the HLP database have been hand-reviewed to bring the best language links the Web has to offer.
   http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

» The List of Language Lists
   List-servers for a wide variety of language studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien.
   http://www.evertype.com/langlist.html

» The Rosetta Project
   Working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone, a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages.
   http://www.rosettaproject.org

» 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.
   http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/COMMUNICATIONS/TopLanguages.html

» UCLA Language Materials Project Index Pages
   Information on less-commonly taught languages.
   http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/

» Yamada Language Center
   Extensive information and web links on languages.
   http://babel.uoregon.edu/