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The Open Directory Natural Languages section organizes languages according to a genetic classification. You may submit sites to the language family category, or, if you are familiar with the topic, can be neutral and enjoy collaboration, we invite you to apply to be an editor and build an existing or entirely new language category yourself! Afro-Asiatic: Hebrew, Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Somali, Hausa, Aramaic, Maltese, Egyptian Hieroglyphs Austro-Tai: Hawaiian, Indonesian, Tagalog, Cebuano, Javanese, Balinese, Malay, Malagasy, Thai, Lao, Fijian, Tongan, Tahitian, Samoan, Maori, Javanese Baltic: Latvian, Lithuanian, Prussian, Suldovian Celtic: Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Gaulish, Irish, Manx Finno-Ugric: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Sami/Lapp, Nenets, Livonian, Karelian, Vodian, Vepsian, Cheremis, Votyak, Komi, Vogul, Ostyak, Enets, Nganasan, Selkup. Germanic Languages: Dutch, English, German, Yiddish, Gothic, Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Frisian, Afrikaans Hellenic: Ancient, Koine, and Modern Greek Indo-Iranian: Farsi/Persian, Urdu/Hindi, Romany/Gypsy, Kurdish, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati Romance: French, Italian, Romanian, Asturian, Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Rumansch, Catalan, Sardinian, Galician, Occitan, Valencian, Sardinian, Walloon Italic: Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Volscian, Picene, Faliscan and Latin Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and any other Chinese dialect, Tibetan, Burmese, Sharpa, Miao, Yao, Hakka Slavic: Plish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Czech, Sorbian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic, Pidgins and Creoles: Contact languages such as Tok Pisin, Krio, Rasta Patois, Kreyol, Papiamentu, Bazaar and Baba Malay, Hawaiian Pidgin, Sango, Lingala, Cajun, Michif, Chinook Jargon Niger-Kordofanian: Swahili, Bantu, Wolof, Fulani, Zulu, Mandink, Kongo, Shiyeye, Akan, Bamileke, Ewe, Yoruba Altaic: Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Kazakh Dravidian: Tamil, Telegu Austro-Asiatic: Khmer, Muong, Vietnamese
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| 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.
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| | Liberation Philology - 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.
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| | UCLA Language Materials Project Index Pages - Information on less-commonly taught languages.
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| | Language of the Week - A different world language is examined each week. Includes archives of past weeks.
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| | Language Families - Introduction to the major language families, including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic.
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| | Yamada Language Center - Extensive information and web links on languages.
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| | 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.
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| | Multilingual Data Bank - Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples from the rarer languages.
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| | Languages on the Web - All about foreign languages, as many as 400 different languages, online language courses, language sites evaluation and free advice on how to study.
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| | 123world - Languages of Our World - Links to world language sites.
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| | 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.
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| | A Web of On-line Grammars - 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.
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| | Vocabulary Test - Java applet to test vocabulary skills between English and French, Spanish, German and Czech.
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| | Ethnologue - Extensive database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map, language family, country, and language name. From Summer Institute of Linguistics. Also offers print and CD-ROM versions.
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| | The Linguist List: Language Resources - Searchable information on language families, employment opportunities, publications, text and computer tools, language study and pedagogy.
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| | Language Museum - Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.
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| | Language Families - Maps of the various language families, with background reference material, based on Encyclopaedia Britannica material.
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| | Language Tree - List of world language hierarchies.
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| | Language Miniatures - Mini-essays about human language in its endless kaleidoscope of aspects.
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | Language Portraits - Translations of one poem into 82 languages by native speakers.
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| | The Genetic Unity of Black African, Elamite, Dravidian, and Sumerian Languages - Attempt at showing a genetic relationship among four language groups not normally thought of as related.
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| | Languages of the World - A description of major world languages and language families, with links.
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| | Convent of Pater Noster - The Lord's Prayer in more than one thousand languages and dialects.
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| | The List of Language Lists - List-servers for a wide variety of language studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien.
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| | World Languages - Directory of language families and individual language pages, online dictionaries, and other resources.
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