Posted by sociolingo on April 28, 2008
Glottopedia : a linguistics encyclopedia in wikipedia style, monitored by Martin Haspelmath
Glottopedia - the free encyclopedia of linguistics
http://www.glottopedia.org
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Posted by sociolingo on April 28, 2008
Numeral systems of the Languages of the world
(the link to the webpage is temporarily disabled because of work on the site. Please check back later to see if the link is live). Please send any enquiries to:
Eugene Chan, Hong Kong
eugenechans(at)hkbn(dot)net
See also http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources.php for more resources
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Posted by sociolingo on April 28, 2008
Source: World Atlas of Language Structures
The Most Important Web Site on the World’s Linguistic Diversity
Already when it was published as a book in 2005, The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) represented a giant step forward in scientists’ access to information on the diversity of human languages.
On 142 maps displaying on average 400 languages from all over the world, it shows the geographical distribution of the most important patterns of sounds, word structure and sentence structure.
Through a joint effort of the Max Planck Digital Library and the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, all the data and analytical texts from The World Atlas of Language Structures are now freely available online (”WALS Online”), at http://wals.info. The materials are published under a Creative Commons License, guaranteeing open access for users and inviting scientists to use them for their work. WALS Online is by far the most important web site on the world’s linguistic diversity.
The site shows data on over 2500 languages, for which more than 6500 references have been used. Searching and browsing is possible by structural feature, by language name or language family, by reference and by author. The analytical texts contain links to all the references and all the languages. The maps can be shown at any zoom level, and the map symbols can be displayed in various shapes and colours. A wide range of export options is available.
As in the book version, all languages are equal in WALS Online: each language, regardless of number of speakers, is represented on the map by the same circular symbol. For linguists, small and endangered languages threatened with imminent extinction are fully as interesting as large national languages.
WALS Online provides information on a vast range of structural
variables: number of consonants (from 6 to 122), presence of rare sounds like ö and ü, tone systems, gender categories, plural formation, number of cases, verbal future and past forms, imperatives, word order, passives, numerals, colour terms, writing systems, and more.
Check it out: http://wals.info
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Posted by sociolingo on April 16, 2008
Source: Hausa online grammar (UCLA)
This online grammar provides basic information about the structure of the Hausa language explained in a relatively non-technical way.
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/aflang/Hausa/Hausa_online_grammar/grammar_frame.html
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