Languages and Linguistics

Major Digital Libraries

General Collections

LiveLingua - FSI Language Courses

This site includes its own language learning media as well as a repository for the language learning courses created by the Foreign Service Institute.

https://www.livelingua.com/fsi/

Native Languages of the Americas

This website is a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them.

http://www.native-languages.org/

World Atlas of Language Structures

"The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars)."

https://wals.info/

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

" a digital language archive of recordings, texts, and other multimedia materials in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America."

https://islandora-ailla.lib.utexas.edu/islandora/object/ailla%3Apersons_collection

Contributed by Brittany Selters & Jennifer Duarte

Kaipuleohone: University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive

A collection of endangered languages "spanning a geographic region that includes Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, southeast Asia, and China"

https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4250

Contributed by Brittany Selters & Jennifer Duarte

Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages

Organization working to preserve languages worldwide; includes multiple "talking dictionaries" for a variety of languages. https://livingtongues.org/

Contributed by Brittany Selters & Jennifer Duarte

Canadian Language Museum

The Canadian Language Museum has a description and images of the panels from their 8 traveling exhibits (Canadian English, Eh?; French in Canada; Speaking the Inuit Way; Cree: The People's Lanugage; A Tapestry of Voices; Read Between the Signs; Dictionaries and Indigenous Languages; Sign Languages of Canada; Music - Yiddish Spring). There are 2 online exhibits (Anthem: Expressions of Canadian Identity; Messages from the Mosaic) and a video documentary (Two Row Wampum) discussing the conservation of Indigenous languages.

https://www.languagemuseum.ca/

Contributed by Brittany Selters & Jennifer Duarte

LifePrint.com: ASL University

Created by a Deaf Professor who teaches at California State University: Sacramento, a website with a lesson breakdown and a dictionary for American Sign Language. This is a free website that everyone can use to learn American Sign Language.

http://www.lifeprint.com/

Contributed by Brittany Selters & Jennifer Duarte

World Digital Library Language Collection

The World Digital Library has a section dedicated to documents in different languages. There are 145 different languages with cataloged materials available online. Some languages have one document, and others have nearly 3,000 documents including maps, area descriptions, religous texts, and more.

https://www.wdl.org/en/language/

Contributed by Brittany Selters & Jennifer Duarte

National Museum of Language

National Language Museum in Maryland, USA. Virtual exhibits include: Multilingual Digital Storytelling (videos of stories being read in various languages with transcripts available in the spoken language and English); Dictionary of American Regional English; How a Rat's Tale Helped Dialect Research; Philogelos: The First Joke Book; Writing Language: Passing it On; Emerging American Language in 1812; and Glimpses of French in the Americas.

https://languagemuseum.org/

Contributed by Brittany Selters & Jennifer Duarte

University of Calgary Linguistics Digital Collection

The collection includes American English dialect recordings, a semantics archive, and a world atlas of language structures.


https://library.ucalgary.ca/guides/linguistics/digital

Glottolog 4.4

Glottolog is a comprehensive reference for languages, especially the lesser known languages of the world. Includes dictionaries and grammars.


https://glottolog.org/

English as a Second Language Resources

ESL Resource Kit for Self Learners

English as a Second Language Resources. Recursos de ESL. Learn English easily with these helpful links. Aprenda inglés fácilmente con estos útiles enlaces.

https://sites.google.com/sjsu.edu/info266eslresources/home