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Marc van Oostendorp is a linguistics professor at Meertens Institute in Amsterdam. He is also an enthusiastic supporter of 'open source linguistics' and an Esperantist. His major field of expertise is phonology, and there is a wealth of information available on his website, including pdfs of outlin...

Interesting papers regarding the 'Pygmies' of central Africa. Daniel Duke Thesis. Aka as a contact language. Daou V. Joiris The framework of central African hunter-gatherers. Serge Bahuchet Fragments pour une histoire de la forêt africaine et de son peuplement. Serge Bahuchet (Slides: Maps, Charts &...

Hausa Grammar.
Hausa Homepage.

Free non-printable PDF access for Masters and Doctoral theses at MIT.
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7829

Bantu lexical reconstructions database. http://www.metafro.be/blr

How to write Davanagari. Click on the type of sound and then the character for an animated stroke by stroke demonstration.

Peace Corps Guinea's learner's guide to Pular (Northern Atlantic, Fula)

http://www.ibamba.net/pular/

Tons of stuff on tone, tonogenesis and language in general.
(In French and English)


http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/

Eccentric Iconoclast wrote:A guy tried to rob a convenience store with a pair of women's underwear on his head.

"petit larceny" hehe. I wonder if the cop used the old line "Son, you got a panty on your head."

Tons of PDFy goodness on Mande languages.

Someone at Grenoble has posted a Lexicon of Linguistics which gives very detailed definitions - much better than the SIL Glossary, IMO. Note: I've tried working backwards from the URL, but there doesn't seem to be a way to access the page for listings under a specific letter other than to type the l...

http://www.igboguide.org/index.php This unique site provides simple and easy-to-read insights into Enugu and Igboland culture and language . Not only does the guide describe the wide variety of the traditions in this part of Nigeria, attention is also paid to normal day-to-day facets of life in the ...

Very interesting discussion of the creation of orthographies for tonal languages.

http://cogprints.org/2174/00/wll2.pdf

SPOTTED LINSANG (a civet)


OWSTON'S PALM CIVET

Google maps directions from NYC to London.
Good luck on step #24.

Bienvenue sur Persée, le portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales , créé par le ministère de l'éducation nationale, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche. Suscité par la communauté des chercheurs, soucieux d'une meilleure visibilité de leur production scientifique, l...

ils wrote: The Emerging Church movement reshapes Christian evangelicalism. (Via Orcinus.)

Really good article.

http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/f ... dOrder.htm

Matthew S. Dryer: Papers on Word Order.

This page groups together Dryer's publications that deal with word order and position of affixes.

Some are available as pdfs. Others are available if you email the author.

Australian speech therapy site with some very interesting language resources.
http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/freebies.htm

I pronounce that /ni"Zer\/.

Pulaar verbal extensions and phonologically driven affix order - MARY PASTER. http://pages.pomona.edu/~mp034747/Pulaar.pdf 46 pdf pages of yummy, verbal-extensiony goodness! <hr> A Typological Approach to Field Linguistics, Tools for Language Description http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/fieldtools/tools.ht...

Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture. Edited by N.J. Enfield.

32 pgs of introductory comments and bibliography.

Archives of the Mon-Khmer Studies Journal in PDF.

http://sealang.net/archives/mks/

LOGOS LIBRARY - Word by word multilingual library (some with audio)

http://www.logoslibrary.eu/pls/wordtc/n ... rce=search

Children's stories and rhymes with audio files in many languages.

http://www.logoslibrary.eu/pls/wordtc/n ... bi?lang=en

Yeah. I like to say I'm 42 but I'm actually 84.