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I thought this might come in handy for some

Pidgin genesis with a good number of examples from pidgins, especially those from the amerind areas..:)

http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/L ... esnan.html
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I found another one that we all can use

a guide/overview on writing grammars..:)

http://www.uwm.edu/~noonan/Grammar-Writing.revision.pdf
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I found a good paper on the Great Ngamo Tone SHift

so for those who want to do some SC's on thier tones, here is a good look at one..:)

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/aflan ... s/GNTS.pdf
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As suggested by TomHChappell elsewhere, I'm posting these:

SIL's DDP

Here's the outline:

List of Domains. (WARNING: .doc file)

DDP stands for Dictionary Development Process, and the outline above gives their proposed semantic domains for a field linguist to collect words
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Laurie Anderson wrote:Writing about music is like dancing about architecture

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Trebor loves google.
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The Leipzig Glossing Rules: Conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses.
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The Luganda Learning Manual

basically a "beginners textbook' of ~ 183 pages to learn the basics of a Bantu language
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdo ... /35/0b.pdf

Here is a more Grammar based info, reading & writing as well
http://www.buganda.com/luganda.htm
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/

Resources on a number of early Indo-European languages, including Hittite, Sanskrit, Latin, Classical and New Testament Greek, as well as Old French, Gothic, and Old Iranian.

No Celtic languages, alas.
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http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=8
Open Access Journals for Language, Literature, and Linguistics.

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Some sentences to test your conlang focused on grammar:
http://talideon.com/concultures/wiki/?doc=TestSentences
[url=http://awkwords.wsr3.net]Awkwords - word generator[/url] | [url=http://awkwords.wsr3.net/help.html]Documentation & download[/url]

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http://mulivo.pbwiki.com/

multilingual translations
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omg. thanks for those links on philippine folk tales! just the topic i've been looking for. :)
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BlueToy wrote:omg. thanks for those links on philippine folk tales! just the topic i've been looking for. :)
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http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/h ... nloads.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
Thai
Turkish
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http://odge.info/

English-German / German-English
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