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Anyone have anything on Nihali? That is, not Nahali.
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I apologize if this has been asked before. Are there any good books or online resources that list native English words (i.e. Anglo-Saxon words) that were displaced by borrowed words? For example, how the English word "ruth" (Old English hrēowð) was dropped in favor of "pity".
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In case someone has a use for it... It's already hosted on my dropbox so might as well share
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/193 ... %8C%20.pdf
this is a scan of a spanish textbook for native mandarin speakers. i think it's pretty modern, since it's currently at use at some beijing university. AFAICT it quickly starts getting into the intricacies of spanish: the reflexive pronouns and the " lo " thing and whatnot.

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Good meta-resource of PIE language family internal pronoun reconstructions.

https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/ ... sequence=1

I see a few mistakes, but otherwise, great.
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2+3 clusivity wrote:Good meta-resource of PIE language family internal pronoun reconstructions.

https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/ ... sequence=1

I see a few mistakes, but otherwise, great.
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An Overview of Uto-Aztecan Grammar: http://www-01.sil.org/acpub/repository/21478.pdf
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Does anyone have information about the phonology and diachronics of (Modern) Pontic Greek?
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http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.t ... 201958.pdf

Xpost from the facebook omniglot group, a mid-20th century textbook on chinese cursive script.

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http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/system/files/tocharian.pdf

A concise handbook on Tocharian covering the development of the languages from PIE and their synchronic phonology and grammar.

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A relatively recent Burushaski grammar.

https://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2006/m ... s96677.pdf
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The writers of the Tumblr blog The Qwanqwa Project have uploaded a drive with lots of resources on African languages, including, for example, a grammar of Modern South Arabian.

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Source comparing the behavior of pre-verbs and pre-verb stacking in Vedic v. classical Sanskrit.

http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~papke/d ... andout.pdf
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a grammar book of Mandarin Chinese:

https://mega.nz/#!KcoSDLyA!0BdMl9RKK0Yz ... Z5zxISwIwo
See here for a short introduction of some of my conlangs: http://cals.conlang.org/people/472

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Interesting source on Dyadic kinship terms and related constructions.

http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.ed ... encycl.pdf
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The Austronesian Languages, by Blust

http://pacling.anu.edu.au/materials/Blu ... nesian.pdf
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Christian Lehmann, Thoughts on Grammaticalization (3rd ed.): http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/88. Lehmann's homepage also provides downloads of articles that correspond more or less to chapters in the 2nd – as yet never written – volume.

The book is maybe a bit heavy on Indo-European languages, but it's a standard work on the topic, and I wish some of the things in it had been pointed out to me earlier in my conlanging. It contains a few useful charts summarizing typical grammaticalization paths, which may help to make your conlang a bit more plausible and consistent in its morphology.

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Looks like there are lots of great resources listed here! Thanks, everybody!
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캉탁 wrote:http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_index.htm

I have to say, I am using about.com more and more for lang info and research, it really is a good resource, and besides the pop-ups pretty user friendly
french.about.com and german.about.com are my go-to resources for those two languages. I think italian.about.com might be it for Italian, too, and there's also spanish.about.com, but I never used them too much. chinese.about.com is actually not that useful FWIR.
Broken link; I believe that URL has now changed to http://www.unilang.org/resources.php. Note that in the language-specific forums, which anyone can see, there are often also lists of resources for specific languages.
Full list of dictionaries from Digital Dictionaries of South Asia here
I think these have moved here (where it is no longer the case that you will hear a voice loudly welcoming you in Hausa with "barka da zuwa!") and here, respectively.
Jipí wrote:http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Indonesian/... -- Indonesian-English dictionary (with usage information)

The SEAsite homepage contains information on South East Asian languages in general.
Indeed - at least for the major ones and a few of the Tai languages. That's why it's my go-to for those languages.
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I need a Vulgar Latin dictionary if the above is not possible. But I refer you to dictionary.com which gives the etymology of all the words available (and some VL and CL words, but not enough). I find it hard to believe that, say for French, such a resource doesn't exist.
I think there's only so much we know about Vulgar Latin anyway, though.
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Eddy wrote:A rather hefty PDF detailing a proposed reconstruction of the Khoisan family: http://starling.rinet.ru/Texts/khoisan.pdf Of course I don't know if I can vouch for its accuracy but it is quite an interesting resource nonetheless for the sheer size of what it's trying to tackle.
But I thought they'd debunked the idea that the Khoisan family is actually a genetic relationship?
starling.rinet.ru FWIR has a bunch of old dictionaries like this that don't necessarily reflect either the latest scholarship in the field or how languages are even classified these days.
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Depending on what exactly is acceptable in this thread, there could be tons and tons of websites I could list here, so it's impossible for me to remember them all of the top of my head, but I guess I'll try to add things here as I do remember them, if that's okay. For now, I guess I'll start of by just sharing these (note that I've already shared a few above, too):

An article in Spanish on the history of the verb gustar: http://gramatica.usc.es/~vvazq/pdf_publ ... s_2007.pdf
An English -> Persian dictionary: http://www.farsidic.com/en/Lang/EnFa
A Persian -> English dictionary (with keyboard; you can click on the letters on the screen if you like, as I do): http://www.farsidic.com/en/Lang/FaEn
A list of resources for Mandarin Chinese: http://learningchineseonline.net/
The website for Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign, which also IIRC has good learning resources for Mandarin: http://mandarin.org.sg/en
(Not sure how useful this is going to be at all, but oh well, here it is anyway:) A video consisting of an audio course for learning Qingtianese through Mandarin, with the subtitles in the captions: http://qtnews.zjol.com.cn/video/text.asp?id=3998 (Warning: a native speaker of Qingtianese I know tells me that the characters used for transcribing Qingtianese here are merely phonetic, not at all the actual characters used when writing Qingtianese (though it's generally hard to tell what the appropriate characters are as well), and also takes issue with some of their data).
For Japanese:
http://thejapanesepage.com
http://imabi.net
A set of dictionaries for Korean: http://dic.naver.com/; includes a hanja dictionary: http://hanja.naver.com/
And let's not forget WIktionary, of course!

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I have the first half of De Laguna's ethnography on the Yakutat Tlingit and no idea where I got it; does anyone know where I can find volume 2?
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This wonderful overview of Sino-Tibetan:

http://bartos.web.elte.hu/sinotib/thur-lapolla-ST.pdf
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Frislander wrote:This wonderful overview of Sino-Tibetan:

http://bartos.web.elte.hu/sinotib/thur-lapolla-ST.pdf
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