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Read free online - Over 650 titles including 'language' published by John Benjamins.

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Sixteen titles on Creoles.

Childs, G. Tucker (2003) An Introduction to African Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamin.

Ideophones, Voeltz, F. K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.)

OTTER + WASSUP DUDE!

http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/handbook_downloads.htm Audio IPA files for 27 languages. American-English Amharic Arabic Bulgarian Cantonese Catalan Croatian Czech Dutch French Galician German Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Igbo Irish Japanese Korean Persian Portuguese Sindhi Slovene Swedish Tha...

BlueToy wrote:omg. thanks for those links on philippine folk tales! just the topic i've been looking for.

Wycoval, at your service. /doffs hat

Serali wrote:If there is a script in the works me and Khang would like to see it when you're done with it.

Sorry, but that's just funny. I'm not picking on you, Serali.

Sigs may come and sigs may go. Best to quote it if you want to keep it around for later.

The Leipzig Glossing Rules: Conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses.

it can't possibly be harder for you to master than it is for Americans to learn the use of the subjunctive in Romance languages. But... we use the subjunctive all the time... "If I were to go down there tomorrow..." "Thanks be to God..." You use constructions like that "all the time"? I know I don'...

When visiting other parts of the world, you can often encounter things that are quite common there for which you have no good English word. Here are some examples of terms that we used amongst ourselves when I was a Peace Corps volunteer. When speaking in English it was not uncommon to change the pr...

Saudade (pron. IPA [sɐu'ðað(ɨ)] in European Portuguese and Galician, and [sau'dadʒi] or [sau'daði] in Brazilian Portuguese) is a Portuguese word for a feeling of longing for something that one is fond of, which is gone, but might return in a distant future. It often carries a fatalist tone and a re...

http://greylib.align.ru/listgenre.php?genre=2&lang=1

Books in seven different languages. Website in Russian, titles and authors in applicable languages. Click around.
Language tabs on the top, genre list at the right (Жанры).

Hittite, Sumerian, Akkadian

http://www.premiumwanadoo.com/cuneiform ... ge=accueil

praseodymium wrote: MEAT DISGUISED AS A CAR
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MEAT DISGUISED AS A HAT
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*falls over laughing*

Where did you find those?

Googled "made of meat". You can find pictures of just about anything if you do the right search.

Dewrad wrote: We don't try to disguise meat as vegetables, so why on earth do vegetarians think it's a good idea to disguise tofu as meat?

MEAT DISGUISED AS A CAR


MEAT DISGUISED AS A HAT

Having been a single adult for the better part of 15 years, I have learned a thing or two about cooking and I enjoy it for the most part. I cook creatively, largely without written recipes, and am a pretty decent cook overall if I do say so myself. Cooking creatively can have a down side though, I h...

BABY BUNNY CLAPPING PAWS

Let's at least see if we can get 51,000 views!

EMPEROR PENGUIN CHICK

God I hate you english. You and your pestilent language. A plague has ravaged the world now for a hundred, two hundred years, and no stop in sight! A plague that will surely destroy our souls, like it has destroyed the souls of the denizens of perfidious Albion. I just had to squiggot this - even i...

Hawai'ian free online language course

http://ksdl.ksbe.edu/kulaiwi/index.html

Akan (West Africa) language course on line.
Very detailed grammar information.

http://www.akan.org/akan_cd/ALIAKAN/course/U-Akan.html

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Tons of language related books online available here:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html

Austronesian Languages Basic Vocabulary Database http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/language.php?group=* Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language (North American) by Buckingham Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14419 Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language by Walter G. Ivens http:/...

ODIN - The Online Database of Interlinear Texts Very good resource for academic linguistics papers in PDF format, sorted by the languages they use for examples. 643 languages 2,061 documents 31,470 instances ____________________________________________ I think this would be a thread that would be h...

Very good resourse for basic phonology. Gives contrasting sound files of many unusual phonemes including implosive, ejective and laryngealized sounds, clicks, aspiration, voicing, and points of articulation - all from original language sources. http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/Vow...