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Alces wrote:http://www.muturzikin.com/en.html

Some really nice maps of language ranges. They show the languages extending into adjacent countries, which is an improvement over Ethnologue. They also seem to have maps for every country. I don't know how accurate it is, or where its sources are.
It's awful, awful. I wish there were that many Pipil speakers in El Salvador, but supposing there's any source for that map it must be from the 19th century or something.

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http://www.smarthanzi.net/

http://www.smartkanji.net/

Nice sites for Mandarin/Japanese learners.

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sano wrote:http://www.smarthanzi.net/

http://www.smartkanji.net/

Nice sites for Mandarin/Japanese learners.
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They show up fine here.
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Weird.
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faiuwle, on the CBB, while the Zeeb was down, wrote:TV tropes is not nearly as painstakingly organized, though. This isn't based so much on the type index as on the motif index, which breaks the types down into individual story components and is incredibly massive. It's also not specific to any particular culture, or anything.
This is not about linguistics, but it's a massive database of folktale motifs from a number of different cultures according to the Aarne-Thompson index. Might be useful for your conculture's scriptures.

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Does anyone have a website showing how to simplify hanzi, going from standard grade school writing fully simplified grass script? In English? I know there was one ages ago but I lost it.

Also, does anyone have an English website with audio that goes into detail on intonation, tones, tonic, etc.?

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http://cinduworld.tripod.com/wordlist.txt

List by CONLANG-L's Roger Mills of when he was doing fieldwork in Indonesia some decades ago. Apart from specific SEA-lang stuff, probably pretty useful in general to cover a wide range of everyday words (it made me notice my conlang e.g. still has almost no words for rather basic cooking utensils).

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Would anyone fancy a grammar of Abui? It's quite fleshed out, at around 560 pages I reckon.
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Certainly.

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dhokarena56 wrote:Certainly.
This one is of digital text, unlike DMS

It's hawt: A Grammar of Abui - A Papuan language of Alor

Would you also fancy a History of Iroquian?
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Yesyesyesyesyesplease!

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dhokarena56 wrote:Yesyesyesyesyesplease!
I believe that it's something like 590 pages of diachronics XP
OTOH, it ananyses every branch of Iroquian, and many individual languages.
And, fine sir, here it be for you: A History of the Iroquian Languages by Charles Julian
Dandy thing. I use it to crossreference my sound changes for believability.
Edit: it also has dandy handdrawn sketches.
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Is it safe to click those filehoster links, or must I be afraid that I'll be sued over downloading stuff from there next week?

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Guitarplayer wrote:Is it safe to click those filehoster links, or must I be afraid that I'll be sued over downloading stuff from there next week?
It's safe - Mediafire is the only filesharer that has won the court battle fought by the American govt. so far. It's not going down any time soon (by soon I mean two weeks)
Unless, of course, you want me to upload something to some Kyrgyz filesharer which will likely be taken down soon due to pedofiliac material storage charges...
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Asahi wrote:I acutally have a fairly large collection of grammars (47) but I can't remeber the sites they were from. :cry:
Share share share!
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I can make out 11 conlangs on that list. Mostly ones that have been mentioned on Conlangery.

Mine is among them. Oh shi-, I should get back to grammar writing in the holidays :?

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Asahi wrote:French
Aeruyo
Amharic
Arabic
Aramaic
Ayeri
Burushaski
Cherokee
Coptic
Czech
Dothraki
Elkaril
Esparanto
Georgian
Gomain
Hebrew 1
Hebrew 2
High Eolic
Hittite
Hupa
Inyauk
Iroquoian
Kahtsaai
Latin
Maltese
Maori
Nahuatl
Navi
Oksapmin
Okuna
Ossetic
Pali
Pashto
Persian
Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Seychellois Creole, Somali, Sumerian 1, Sumerian 2, Tsotzil, Vanga vers. 1, 2, 3

Just choose some and I'll share. But be sure to take note that I haven't read most of them and therefore do not know exactly how good they are.
If you could be good, I'd like the following:

Cherokee
Coptic
Germanic
Hittite
Nahuatl
Sanskrit
Sumerian 1
Sumerian 2


If you want, I could upload a 5-eBook series from Chomsky, or "The Theory and Practice of Translation" by Nida, Eugen and Taber, Charles.

Edit: or:
"Time in Language" - Klein, Wolfgang
"Describing Language" - Graddol, David
"From Old English to Standard English" - Freeborn, David


Generally, I have theory on linguistics but lack grammar in general
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I'd love to see the Maltese and Coptic ones. What's the Burushaski-stuff you have? I have some short papers on it but no actual grammar.

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Yeah, Burushaski sound interesting.
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Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Coptic, Czech, Georgian, Maltese, Maori, Persian, Sumerian 1, Sumerian 2. Pretty please with sugar on top.

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