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http://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Languages/

WOW! :o

What looks like a very good resource for many different languages of different families.
Dictionaries, lexicons, grammars ... tons of information.
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An in-depth grammar of Proto-Germanic. Ideal for anyone considering doing an a posteriori language from Germanic.
Some useful Dravian links: Grammar - Lexicon - Ask a Dravian
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Dewrad wrote:An in-depth grammar of Proto-Germanic. Ideal for anyone considering doing an a posteriori language from Germanic.
I just hope this won't invalidate Dekavurian...
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http://urts120.uni-trier.de/glottopedia ... /Main_Page -- Martin Haspelmath et. al. are currently setting up a professionally edited wiki about linguistics.

http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissensc ... do_Servlet -- "Terminological und bibliographical database" of the Universität Erfurt
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Ethnobotanical Leaflets from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/course ... hoisan.htm

Includes glosses and sound recordings of many Khoisan languages.
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It looks like the page here may be a more complete (and partially unicodified!) version of those Khoisan resources. It also links to some recordings of Sandawe and Hadza on UCLA's site.
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http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/Welcome.html
Home page (DUB.E = tuppi bitim, 'home clay tablet') on Akkadian, an introduction collected by John Heise. Akkadian is a great cultural language of world history. These pages are about the cuneiform writing system on clay tablets, the language, the grammar. Some texts examples with transliteration and explanation are presented.
One of the better sites on cuneiform that I have seen.

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Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction by James A. Matisoff
in pdf form
at the eScholarship Repository, University of California.

An 800-page book packed with information, including extensive discussion of reconstruction issues, indices of reconstructed roots, and an appendix on Old Chinese phonology. Very well-written too.
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Here are some useful word-lists for conlangers and natlangers, that I archived on my website some time ago:

http://www.annelyle.com/lang/resources.php

There are also a couple of documents listing all the topic headings from "Describing Morphosyntax", which were originally posted on C&C.
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http://hieroglyphs.net/0301/cgi/pager.pl?p=01

A very nicely done site about hieroglyphs and the Egyptian language.
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/

Basic and not-so-basic lessons in Latin, Classical and New Testament Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Classical Armenian, Old Iranian, Old Norse, Baltic, Hittite, Sanskrit, Gothic, Old French, Old Irish, Old English, and Tocharian.
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http://www.native-languages.org/
Has data on approximately a schmazillion Amerind languages; there's plenty of stuff on the site itself, and there are tons of links to outside resources.

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RedFox wrote:Here are some useful word-lists for conlangers and natlangers, that I archived on my website some time ago:

http://www.annelyle.com/lang/resources.php

There are also a couple of documents listing all the topic headings from "Describing Morphosyntax", which were originally posted on C&C.
I might add that redfox's Web site contains a fair amount of other interesting material, including print and online resources for aspiring authors, and info on her own work. 8) I hope to further explore some of these links in the future.

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Im not sure if any one has put this up earlier but here is a resource for a papuan language called Abui. http://www.lotpublications.nl/publish/a ... okpart.pdf

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http://www.aluka.org/

An absolute treasure trove of cultural information about Africa.

Botanical info out the wazoo, including medicinal uses.
Many plant names given in African languages.

Edit: Also, free full access including pdf downloads until June 30, 2008.
http://www.aluka.org/action/showRegistration
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Systèmes alphabétiques des langues africaines d'après Alphabets des langues africaines Unesco-SIL 1993.

Phonological charts and official orthographies of 200 African languages.

http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/PhonologieN.php
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Here is my collection of data gathered from various places, including PDF documents about both natlangs and conlangs and some other stuff:
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/399510 ... PB.torrent (265 MB)

All the Zeeblang threads are recorded there too. Also a description of Aymara in Spanish gathered from a website that doesn't exist already.
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I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
What kind of cookie?
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Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, Vols 1 - 6. Thomas, Northcote Whitridge.

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=igbo%20language


Liberia (Volume 2) - Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927

A comparative grammar of the South African Bantu languages comprising those of Zanzibar, Mozambique, the Zambesi, Kafirland, Benguela, Angola, the Congo, the Ogowe, the Cameroons, the lake region, etc - Torrend, J



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Tons of other historical linguistic and anthropological information free to read and download as pdfs.
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here is another website on papuan languages http://www.papuaweb.org/dlib/bk/pl/C38/_toc.html

This website contains a boat load of information on Papuan languages.

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http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4877/1/Kwon_Min-Jae.pdf - Min-Jae Kwon: Modalpartikeln und Satzmodus. Untersuchungen zur Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik der deutschen Modalpartikeln (which is to say, it deals with how German's infamous ja, aber, doch, nur, eigentlich etc. are used. Written in German, though.)

/me looks at German and/or Dutch learners and/or speakers

ALSO if you add something here, you might want to add it on the respective KneeQuickie page as well.

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