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.
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.
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)."
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.
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.
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.
Glottolog 4.4
Glottolog is a comprehensive reference for languages, especially the lesser known languages of the world. Includes dictionaries and grammars.
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.