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The Artist Formerly Known as Caleone

My Conlangs (WIP):

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

Very detailed maps of languages and their locations. Covers some areas, like China, where the Ethnologue doesn't have a proper map.

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Blog:

This is a good read:

http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~mielke/ ... e_diss.pdf
"The Emergence of Distinctive Features"

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Try the online version of the HaSC sound change applier:

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Some interesting stuff is available here:

http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft/WACpubs.html

The page lists publications of William Croft, who wrote "Radical Construction Grammar". Some of the articles / texts are downloadable in PDF form.

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Old Spanish


Online version of the Cantar de Mio Çid. To the right, an HTML-friendly transcription of Menéndez Pidal's own transcription of the manuscript. To the left, a conversion of this transcription to somewhat modern orthography with modern word spacing by the editor.


Colourful site with lots of notes on Medieval Spain and some fragments


Online version of Menéndez Pidal's Manual elemental de gramática histórica española (1904).

Google Books previews:

David Pharies' A brief history of the Spanish language (2007) (also available )


Ralph Penny's A history of the Spanish language (2002)


Paul Lloyd's From Latin to Spanish - Vol. I: Historical Phonology and Morphology of the Spanish language (1987)

Early Modern Spanish


Site on Antonio de Nebrija. You can find an online version of his GRAMMATICA (late 15th century), albeit greatly adapted to modern orthography. (Things like double <ss> are conserved, but you can see some clear editing here.)


Scanned version of Nebrija's book, thanks to the Bilioteca Nacional de España.


Online version of EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QVIXOTE DE LA MANCHA, and the second part, DEL INGENIOSO CAVALLERO DON QVIXOTE DE LA MANCHA (early 17th century), by the BNE. Nevermind the background music.

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Anybody got something on Yup'ik?

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Chances are it's Ryukyuan ().

An introduction to .

A stack is a concept in computing. So here it's a reference to computer languages.

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(University of London)

^ It's so weird being able to half-understand a dead language.

http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/arabic/

A nicely done introductory course to Arabic.

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Conlang atlas of language structures
Interaction of the semantics of words and sentences
Intonation lexicon
Variation and evolution in the lexicon
Universals archive
Grammatic rarity cabinet (GRAMMATISCHE RARITÄTENKABINETT)
Online Documentation of Kolyma Yukaghir
Glossary of linguistic terms -- SIL international

If you're looking for a good word generator, works fairly well. I don't think it handles Unicode, and it was originally a Dwarf Fortress tool, but it might be useful. Play around with it.

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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
–Herm Albright
Even better than a proto-conlang, it's the *kondn̥ǵʰwéh₂s

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Der Digitale Wenker-Atlas ():
http://www.diwa.info/DiWA/atlas.aspx

Warning: Needs Windows, since the installation for the JPEG2000 plugin you need is .exes all the way down.