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My old link to Grimm and Lexer doesn't work anymore, since the portal is now http://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/. Most notably and of interest to you and youse it hosts a digitalized version of Deutsches Wörterbuch by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, as well as the Benecke-Müller-Zarncke (also known as BMZ) and its concordance, Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch with its Nachträge by Matthias Lexer. It also has a Lessico Etimologico Italiano.
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[size=84]And! [url=http://bit.ly/9dSyTI]Ayeri Reference Grammar[/url] (upd. 28 Sep 2010)[/size]

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An Indo-European etymological database. Unfortunately, while useful, it's more than a decade old in parts and in many spots is a relic of a time before Unicode.

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A whole slew of texts in Eastern Algonquian languages, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Egein wrote:I used this neat classification to understand better how my conlang uses indefinite pronouns:

http://math.berkeley.edu/~apollo/my-con ... ndpro.html

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[url]http://www.ibiblio.org/sanskrit/introduction[/url]
The best introduction to Sanskrit I've seen- it's linguistically informed, but it isn't impenetrable like Whitney.

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http://www.translitteration.com/transliteration/en/adyghe/iso-9/

Awesomeness.

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I don't know if this has been posted before, but here's a grammar of Tlingit: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~crippen/papers/tlingit-gram.pdf. There's also a message board for the language here, though it's pretty empty at the moment.

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Anybody know a good site or book that will do as an introduction to Proto-Algonquian?

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Alces wrote:I don't know if this has been posted before, but here's a grammar of Tlingit: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~crippen/papers/tlingit-gram.pdf. There's also a message board for the language here, though it's pretty empty at the moment.
THANK YOU FOR THE TLINGIT LINK.

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roninbodhisattva wrote:
Alces wrote:I don't know if this has been posted before, but here's a grammar of Tlingit: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~crippen/papers/tlingit-gram.pdf. There's also a message board for the language here, though it's pretty empty at the moment.
THANK YOU FOR THE TLINGIT LINK.
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This is not uninsteresting if you can read German sufficiently well to understand a lesson on how to read voice spectrograms: http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/stu ... LKap2.html

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Does anyone have Nahautl grammar?
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There's been criticism on the ZBB, probably at least partially justified, of the format in which this resource has been made available; nevertheless the content is useful.

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For Indo-European languages;

TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien)
especially TITUS Didactica such as
TITUS Didactica: Elements of Indo-European Morphology
TITUS Didactica: Indo-European Reconstruction
TITUS Didactica: Indogermanistische Stammbaummodelle
TITUS Didactica: Indo-European Languages and Their Attestation
TITUS Didactica: Indo-European Languages and Their Attestation (different format)
TITUS Unicode: The Indo-Iranian Verb
TITUS Unicode: The Indo-Iranian Verb (Part 2)
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/id ... dgphon.htm
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/id ... dgphon.htm

Also there are some PDFs:
Elements of Proto-I.E. Phonology
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/idg/idgstkl.pdf

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The TITUS Search Engine.

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And other resources.

Look at, for instance, http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/idg/, its files, and its subdirectories and their files.

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Also go to the parent directory, http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/, and its contents and subdirectories.

Most of them are not as complete as the Indo-European one, but they nevertheless contain useful resources; for instance, the maps in http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/karten/.

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Some ideas not yet worked out will be very useful when they are. An example is http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/kinship/. At the moment it's buggy enough that one should be cautious about opening it.

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TomHChappell, Archivist By Proxy wrote:
Is either of those in the Resources thread in the L&L Museum?
LOL! TomHChappell, filling the Resources thread vicariously, one user at at time. :D

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Sweet thanks for that.

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Some information on Chechen and Ingush.

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dhokarena56 wrote:Anybody know a good site or book that will do as an introduction to Proto-Algonquian?
Ehhh...unfortunately almost all of the information, especially the last forty years or so of research, is in journal articles and in papers of the annual Algonquian Conference. If you have access to JSTOR, the journal where basically all the relevant articles can be found is IJAL (the International Journal of American Linguistics). You can order some of the Algonquian Conference papers (others are out of print), but they're pretty expensive, so I've never done that. The closest thing to a book on it (aside from a couple of dictionaries of reconstructed words) is Linguistic Structures of Native America, from 1946, which contains as one of its chapters Leonard Bloomfield's original reconstruction of Proto-Algonquian. It's not too different from the contemporary picture, although obviously there've been plenty of developments since he wrote it.

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Resources concerning cultures:
tsulaokiw wrote:... you might find useful, although mostly on gender roles:
http://books.google.fr/books?id=7co0qho ... &q&f=false
Chuma wrote:...
http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/wor ... oAtlas.pdf

Unfortunately there are no explanations, and some of the alternatives look like serious misprints. Like, on the question whether a culture was included in Summary Atlas Volume 1967, the possible answers are "Yes", "No", and "Plaster, clay, mud and dung, or wattle and daub".
Nevertheless it can be quite useful IMO.
Torco wrote:.... they have the original datases available for download ...

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I have no idea how reliable this guy is, but:
http://www.rogerblench.info/Linguistics papers opening page.htm
http://www.rogerblench.info/Language%20data/
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URL fix'd.

He's at least as reliable as any average historical linguist, I gather.
Not actually new.

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Any resources on the Ryukyuan languages? Much appreciated. =]
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savagemyth wrote:Any resources on the Ryukyuan languages? Much appreciated. =]
For starters, here's a small discussion with a link to a dissertation in French:
http://amritas.com/101023.htm#10192359

(Depending on your degree of previous exposure, prepare for having your mind blown.)
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