Overview of Linguistics

What Is Linguistics?
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/cal00001.html

Linguistics: An Overview
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=overview.htm

Fields of Linguistics
http://www.lsadc.org/index2.php?aaa=fldcont.htm

LSA Series: Frequently Asked Questions (about Linguistics)
http://www.lsadc.org/index2.php?aaa=faq.htm

Language Miniatures: A Selection of Essays
http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/

Glossary of Linguistic Terms
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/contents.htm

Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (Edward Sapir)
http://www.bartleby.com/186/

The Origin and History of the English Language
http://www.krysstal.com/english.html

A (Very) Brief History of the English Language
http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm

English Usage in the UK and USA
http://www.krysstal.com/ukandusa.html

Loanwords: Major Periods of Borrowing in the History of English
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/Course/loanwords.html

A Small Lexicon of Anglo-Saxon Words
http://www.ibiblio.org/lineback/fow.htm

Grimm's Law
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow/grimm/

The Great Vowel Shift
http://alpha.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/index.htm

Where Do Languages Come From?
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/

Language Families
http://www.krysstal.com/langfams.html

Language Families and Languages
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_families_and_languages

Indo-European Language Tree
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/oe-ie.html

Proto Indo-European Language Demonstration & Exploration Website
http://colfa.utsa.edu/drinka/pie/default.htm

Languages of the World
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp

Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 4500 Languages
http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml

Greetings in More than 800 Languages
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/hello.htm

Sounds of the World's Animals (in Different Languages)
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html

Native Languages of the Americas
http://www.native-languages.org/index.htm

Historical Linguistics: Why Do Languages Change?
http://www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html

What's the Difference between Speech and Writing?
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=writing.htm

Origins of Writing
http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws_origins.html

A Guide to Writing Systems
http://www.omniglot.com/

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ipa.htm

Alphabetic Writing Systems
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabetic.htm

Syllabic Writing Systems
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/syllabic.htm

Logographic Writing Systems
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/logographic.htm

Writing: The History, Development and Evolution of the World's Writing Systems
http://www.krysstal.com/writing.html

Writing Systems
http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws.html

Language Museum: Samples of 2000 Languages in the World
http://www.language-museum.com/

Numbers in Various Writing Systems
http://www.zompist.com/scripts.html

Write Like a Babylonian (Cuneiform)
http://www.upennmuseum.com/cuneiform.cgi

Ancient Egyptian Scripts
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/egyptian.htm

See Your Name in Hieroglyphics (Egyptian)
http://www.kingtut-treasures.com/hiero.htm

Write Your Name in Runes (Viking)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/runes.html

Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing
http://www.halfmoon.org/writfork.html

Writing in Inuktitut (Eskimo)
http://www.halfmoon.org/inuit.html

Native Languages of North America (Cherokee, Cree, Western Apache)
http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/ling210/writing.html

The Cree Syllabics Page (Native American)
http://www.storm.ca/~jspence/

Micmac (Native American)
http://198.62.75.1/www1/pater/JPN-micmac.html

Chinese Script
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm

Chinese Characters
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/chinese.html

Animated Chinese Characters
http://www.ocrat.com/chargif/

Hiragana Flashcards (Japanese)
http://www.zompist.com/flash.html

Korean Writing
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/korean.htm

Mongolian Alphabets
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mongolian.htm

Braille
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/braille.htm

Braille and Other Tactile Writing Systems
http://blindreaders.info/brailnfo.html

Morse Code
http://www.rod.beavon.clara.net/morse.htm

Some Sign Language Alphabets from All over the World
http://www.deafblind.com/worldsig.html

A Short History of ASL (American Sign Language)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/9672/HistoryASL.html

A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

American Sign Language (Fingerspelling)
http://where.com/scott.net/asl/

American Sign Language as a Foreign Language
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/asl.html

American Sign Language Browser
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm

Chinese Sign Language
http://library.thinkquest.org/11942/csl.htm

Japanese Sign Language
http://library.thinkquest.org/11942/japanese.htm

Native American Sign Language
http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/native/sign/

Can Chimps Talk?
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/chimps.html

Chimp Talk Debate: Is It Really Language?
http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/articles.chimp.html

Esperanto: The International Language That Works!
http://www.esperanto-usa.org/about_eo.html

A Key to the International Language Esperanto
http://www.esperanto-chicago.org/key.htm

Esperanto: An Overview
http://www.webcom.com/~donh/efaq.html

Esperanto Viva!: A Free Correspondence Course
http://www.esperanto.org/espviva/ev_en/utf-8/unik/index.html

Bibliography of Planned Languages (Excluding Esperanto)
http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/langlab/bibliography.html

International Auxiliary Languages
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/6250/ial.html

What Is Phonetics?
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Phonetics.html

What Is Phonology?
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Phonology.html

Phonetics
http://www.ancientscripts.com/phonetics.html

On-line Phonology Course (Stirling University)
http://www.celt.stir.ac.uk/staff/HIGDOX/STEPHEN/PHONO/PHONOLG.HTM

Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish (University of Iowa)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html

Glossary of Phonetics Terms
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/glossary2.html

UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index.html

Interactive Sagittal Section
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html

The Sounds of Speech
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=speech_sounds.htm

Speech Accent Archive
http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

How to Pronounce "Ghoti" and Why
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/ling006.html

Sine Wave Synthesis
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/MISC/SWS/SWScore.html

The Origin of Words and Names
http://www.krysstal.com/wordname.html

The English Language: Words Borrowed from Other Languages
http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html

Words and Phrase Origins
http://www.wordorigins.org/homepage.htm

New Words in English
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/index.html

Word Spy: Recently Coined English Words and Phrases
http://www.wordspy.com/

Neologisms in Journalistic Text
http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/newwords.shtml

American Dialect Society: Words of the Year
http://www.americandialect.org/woty.html

A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html

Loanwords
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loanword

English Words from Arabic
http://www.zompist.com/arabic.html

Words in English from Amerindian Languages
http://www.zompist.com/indianwd.html

Fun Word Archive
http://www.funwords.com/archive.htm

Words on Word History: Introduction
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/wordhistory.html

A Little Etymology: Greek and Latin Roots
http://ancienthistory.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa052698.htm

Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

New Words in English
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/

College Slang Research Project
http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/~jasanders/slang/project.html

College Slang Around the World
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jasanders/slang/CSRP921.html

But There Are No Such Things as Words!
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/ling005.html

Word Structure Exercises
http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~linguist/lexicon/Wstree.htm

What Is Grammar?
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=grammar.htm

What Is "Correct" Language?
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=prescriptivism.htm

Language Diversity
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=diversity.htm

Discourse Analysis
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=discourse.htm

Meaning
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=meaning.htm

Language and Brain
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=lang_brain.htm

Neurolinguistics
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=neurolinguistics.htm

Language Acquisition (Steven Pinker)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/pinker.langacq.html

When Do People Learn Languages?
http://www.zompist.com/whylang.html

Mama Teached Me to Talk
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/ling001.html

Brain Research: Implications for Second Language Learning
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/0012brain.html

Two or More Languages in Early Childhood: Some General Points and Practical Recommendations
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/earlychild.html

Multilingualism
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=multiling.htm

What Is Sociolinguistics?
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/

Sociolinguistics
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=socioling.htm

Languages in Contact
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=contact.htm

Linguists See Internet Lingo as Cultural Catalyst
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/article010.html

Varieties of English
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/

Phonological Atlas of North America
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html

Language Varieties
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/index.html

African American English: A Webpage for Linguists
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/AAVE.html

African American Vernacular English: A Brief Overview of AAVE
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~bryan/AAVE/

Ebonic Need Not Be English
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/ebonic-issue.html

Dialect Survey of Words and Sounds in the English Language: Maps & Results
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/index.html

Tok Pisin
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/tokpisin.htm

Hawai'i Creole English
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/hce.htm

Jamaican Creole (Patwa)
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/jamaica.htm

The Gullah Creole Language
http://www.ccpl.org/ccl/gullahcreole.html

Kamtok (Cameroon Pidgin)
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/cameroon.htm

The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues
http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm

Exploring Nonverbal Communication
http://nonverbal.ucsc.edu/

Evolved Human Behaviors: Nonverbal Communication
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ec&Ev_Distance_learning/hum_evol_behav.htm

The Body Language of Proxemics
http://members.aol.com/katydidit/bodylang.htm

Hand Gestures for HCI (Hand Centred Input)
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/people/ResearchStaff/amulder/personal/vmi/HCI-gestures.htm

The Gestural Origins of Language
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Animal%20Behavior/new_page_1.htm

Emoticons: E-mail "Body Language"
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/emoticons.html

Computers and Language
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=computers_lg.htm

Machine Translation
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=m_translation.htm

The Arabic Language
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/language/lang.htm

Inquiries into Arabic Linguistics
http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/arabic/arquests.html

Lexical Borrowing in Arabic and English
http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/pubs/papers/browse-papers-action.cfm?PaperID=1261

Arabic in Middle English
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/6361Wilson.htm

Linguistics Humor
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/contents.html

Language Magazine: Last Laugh
http://www.languagemagazine.com/internetedition/lastlgh.html

Funny Translation Errors
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/translation.funnies.html

Interesting English Language Trivia
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/trivia.html

The Importance of Correct Punctuation
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/correct.punctuation.html

The Color Text Brain Teaser
http://www.ojohaven.com/cgi-bin/ColorText.pl

Linguistics Society of America (LSA)
http://www.lsadc.org/

International Linguistic Association
http://www.ilaword.org/

American Dialect Society
http://www.americandialect.org/

The International Phonetic Association (IPA)
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html

American Association for Applied Linguistics
http://www.aaal.org/

Center for Applied Linguistics
http://www.cal.org/

Language
http://www.lsadc.org/language/

Linguistic Inquiry
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=6

Word
http://www.ilaword.org/ilaword.html

Language in Society
http://journals.cambridge.org/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=0&116000REQSUB==&REQSTR1=LSY

American Speech
http://www.americandialect.org/amspeech.html

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0191-5886/contents

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Last update: October 23, 2003