resources

Aurora Rossa · Post by **Aurora Rossa** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:43 pm

But I thought they'd debunked the idea that the Khoisan family is actually a genetic relationship?

Not as far as I know. We do know at least some branches are probably related (such as Ju/'hoan and ‡Hoan) but whether all are related to each other remains disputed.

Drydic · Post by **Drydic** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:50 am

From what I recall the 3 main branches are probably not closely related. But I haven't read much on the subject.

masako · Post by **masako** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:45 pm

For anyone that knows Spanish and wants to pick up some Arabic.

http://www.arabespanol.org/

http://www.almadrasa.org/diccionarios/fonetica.pdf

캉탁 · Post by 캉탁 » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:29 pm

http://transliteration.eki.ee/

Excellent resource for multiple romanization schemes.

Ser · Post by **Ser** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:19 pm

Viktor77 wrote:All I want now is a free online dictionary in Spanish. Not Spanish to English, just a dictionary of Spanish in Spanish! Why are they so hard to find even in stores?

LOOOOOOOL!!!

Don't tell me you didn't know that the RAE has put its dictionary online!?!?
¿¡¿¡No me digas que no sabías que la RAE ha puesto su diccionario en línea!?!?

http://www.rae.es/rae.html
(Upper right corner.)

For anyone that knows Spanish and wants to pick up some Arabic.

http://www.arabespanol.org/

http://www.almadrasa.org/diccionarios/fonetica.pdf

Nice!!

I'm definitely going through that.

dhok · Post by **dhok** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:53 am

http://www.inuktitutcomputing.ca/Techno ... LFT_1.html
A nice little intro to Inuktitut. Not very much on morphology and even less on syntax, I'm afraid, but the phonological description is quite nice.
EDIT
But the Wiki article is better...

dhok · Post by **dhok** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:16 pm

Can somebody point me to a grammar of Tocharian that's more complete than Wikipedia provides?

Tengado · Post by **Tengado** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:43 pm

dhokarena56 wrote:http://www.inuktitutcomputing.ca/Techno ... LFT_1.html
A nice little intro to Inuktitut. Not very much on morphology and even less on syntax, I'm afraid, but the phonological description is quite nice.
EDIT
But the Wiki article is better...

Free Online Inuktitut lessons: http://www.tusaalanga.ca/

The grammar explanation is not the best, but they're not bad.

The vocabulary has sound files for most of the words too, and the dialogues are all available to listen to as well.

Drydic · Post by **Drydic** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:28 am

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/er ... /d3/45.pdf

A grammar of Kanuri, spoken primarily west of the Lake Tša:d area of the Sahel.

dhok · Post by **dhok** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:28 am

This is great! It could use some digitizing, though...it's also obscure enough that I can randomly steal words.

nebula wind phone · Post by **nebula wind phone** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:43 pm

Open access journal of Pacific NW linguisics. Includes instructions on writing Latin in Carrier syllabics — you know, in case the need ever arises.

dhok · Post by **dhok** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:45 am

nebula wind phone wrote:Open access journal of Pacific NW linguisics. Includes instructions on writing Latin in Carrier syllabics — you know, in case the need ever arises.

Oh, very nice. I've always been intrigued by the languages of the Pacific Northwest-especially Nuxalk (which is, judging from the Wikipedia article, spoken by hyper-intelligent beings, because I doubt that any human of normal intelligence, much less a small child, could ever master it). I assume volume 3, issue 1 is coming out soon?

dhok · Post by **dhok** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:07 pm

More on alignment. Here's a nice little paper from Dartmouth...
journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjec ... cument/558[/url]

jmcd · Post by **jmcd** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:59 am

It's better not to comment in this thread unless it's important.

This is a good resource on indefinite pronouns:
http://math.berkeley.edu/~apollo/my-con ... ndpro.html

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:37 pm

Radagast wrote:Browsing JSTOR before my subscription ends I found these articles that are related to conlanging or may be of general interest to conlangers.

A STUDY OF CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES IN ENGLAND WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR RELATIONS WITH SCIENCE AND ATTITUDES TOWARD LITERARY STYLE, 1605-1686
by DEMOTT, BENJAMIN H., Ph.D., Harvard University, 1953,

Davidson on Learnable Languages
Author(s): R. J. Haack
Source: Mind, New Series, Vol. 87, No. 346 (Apr., 1978), pp. 230-249

Minds, Artificial Languages, and Philosophy
Author(s): Warner A. Wick
Source: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Dec., 1953), pp. 228-238

A Note on Primitive Languages
Author(s): Archibald A. Hill
Source: International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jul., 1952), pp. 172-177

How Many Possible Human Languages Are There?
Author(s): Geoffrey K. Pullum
Source: Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer, 1983), pp. 447-467

Languages in Which Self Reference is Possible
Author(s): Raymond M. Smullyan
Source: The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Mar., 1957), pp. 55-67

Artificial Language Projects
Author(s): Lawrence A. Sharpe
Source: South Atlantic Bulletin, Vol. 27, No. 1 (May, 1961), pp. 1-6

Brain Signatures of Artificial Language Processing: Evidence Challenging the Critical Period
Hypothesis
Author(s): Angela D. Friederici, Karsten Steinhauer, Erdmut Pfeifer
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
Vol. 99, No. 1 (Jan. 8, 2002), pp. 529-534
Published by: National Academy of Sciences

The Educational Value of an Artificial Language
Author(s): Helen S. Eaton
Source: The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Nov., 1927), pp. 87-94

Social Transmission of an Artificial Language
Author(s): Erwin A. Esper
Source: Language, Vol. 42, No. 3, Part 1 (Sep., 1966), pp. 575-580

The Relative Stability of First and Second Syllables in an Artificial Language
Author(s): Dael L. Wolfle
Source: Language, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Dec., 1933), pp. 313-315

Persistence of Rule Use in a Miniature Artificial Language
Author(s): Jonathan Baron
Source: The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 88, No. 4 (Dec., 1975), pp. 661-668

Comenius (Komensky) on Lexical Symbolism in an Artificial Language
Author(s): V. T. Miskovska
Source: Philosophy, Vol. 37, No. 141 (Jul., 1962), pp. 238-244

Experiments in Language Learning
Author(s): Helen S. Eaton
Source: The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Oct., 1934), pp. 1-4

Toward the Construction of a Lingua Humana
Author(s): Ralph Gardner White
Source: Current Anthropology, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Feb., 1972), pp. 113-123

Dboozer wrote:
brandrinn wrote:Just go back to your college library (or the nearest library) and they'll have a subscription.
Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy. JSTOR's expensive and not all libraries are going to subscribe. Here's the link to JSTOR's participating institutions:
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/organization/participantLists/participantsAll.jsp

This is an international list. It's not searchable, but you can display by sub-sets including US, Community Colleges, and Secondary Schools (in addition to International libraries).

dhok · Post by **dhok** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:02 am

A grammar of everyone's favorite IE lang, Old Irish. I can't link to the PDF itself but the link's on the left side of the page.
http://www.archive.org/details/grammaro ... 00oconuoft

캉탁 · Post by 캉탁 » Fri May 15, 2009 10:16 am

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/stross/chorti/index.html

http://www.pauahtun.org/MayanGlyphs/Default.htm

Ziz · Post by **Ziz** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:21 pm

English > Latin dictionary (with macra)

Mbwa · Post by **Mbwa** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:23 pm

http://www.freewebs.com/themulders/luoguide.htm

A guide to the Dholuo language.

It seems to be not loading right now, but it may work later.

It's kinda written more for the layman, but it still has some good info, and looks pretty nice.

EDIT:

Just loaded, and uses more linguistic terminology than I thought. Enjoy.

캉탁 · Post by 캉탁 » Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:27 am

http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/NAM/newafrre/w ... /part1.pdf

http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/NAM/newafrre/w ... /part2.pdf

http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/NAM/newafrre/w ... /part3.pdf

http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/NAM/newafrre/w ... /part4.pdf

http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/NAM/newafrre/w ... /part5.pdf

PDFs covering Bantu langs.

Mbwa · Post by **Mbwa** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:08 am

http://www.geocities.com/tsca.geo/dansk/

A good Danish grammar.

Vardelm · Post by **Vardelm** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:12 pm

www.freelang.net

There's a bunch of free dictionaries there, at least for going between English and a bunch of other languages. I'm not sure how accurate it is for each language, but I'm finding this useful for coming up with vocabulary. In my case, I look at 2 langs for inspiration and "shmush" the results together into a new word for my lang.

캉탁 · Post by 캉탁 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:42 am

http://www.myaamiadictionary.org/images ... ondemo.pdf

A very interesting breakdown of the Miami-Illinois person marking system.

Mbwa · Post by **Mbwa** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:41 pm

A brief but interesting bit of Maranao grammar:

http://iloko.tripod.com/Maranao.htm

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:15 am

The StressTyp Database classifies 510 languages according to placement of main stress in words and rhythm of secondary stress in words.

The Stresstyp Database can be queried at:
http://www.unileiden.net/stresstyp/form2b.htm.

Its Manual can be read at:
http://www.unileiden.net/stresstyp/manual.htm

I found a PDF form of its manual at: http://www.unileiden.net/stresstyp/manual.pdf yesterday, but today that link seems to be broken.

The home-page of the StressTyp project is http://www.unileiden.net/stresstyp/index.htm. You can find out more there than I've put in this post.

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http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/tds/index.html looks like it will be a great site one day. The prototype might already be useful, but the prototype doesn't interact well with Internet Explorer.

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