Links to Languages and Linguistics

Some local links o' mine...

• Indo-European language resources
• A conlang project o' mine: Degaspregos
• ...and another, Phaleran.

• Some more info on the Indo-European language family...
• The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process
• Everything anyone wanted to know about Ancient Akkadian at their tuppi bittim (homepage)
• A linguistic map of Pre-Roman Italy
• Etruscan (and Italic) Resources
• Classics Studies - links, links, links...
• Hellenistic Greek Linguistics Pages (including an online Greek grammar)
• Elvis in Latin - Elvis songs transcribed by some Finnish guy
• A Hittite homepage
• Project Wulfila - online Gothic Bible (the sole written source for the Ancient Gothic language).

Old English texts

• The Complete Corpus of Old English Poetry
• OE Poetry: Beowulf
• OE Poetry: Judith
• OE Poetry: The Seafarer
• OE Poetry: The Wanderer
• OE Poetry: The Battle of Maldon
• Sermo Ludi ad Anglos
• The Ruthwell Cross - OE runic texts
• OE Poetry: Riddle 1 of the Anglo-Saxon Riddles
• OE Poetry: Riddle 2
• OE Poetry: Riddle 3
• The Dream of the Rood - important piece of Old English literature
• Regia Anglorum - British Antiquarian society for the preservation of Anglo-Saxon culture and language.
• Beowulf: The Funeral of Scyld Scefing (with Real Audio support); ModEng translation available
• Deor (OE poem; Real Audio support); ModEng translation available
• The Battle of Brunanburh (with RA support); ModEng translation available
• The Pater Noster (Lord's Prayer) in OE (with WAV audio files)
• The original Lingua Franca (the one that actually went by that name)
• Middle English Grammatical and Syntactical Elements

Phonology and Phonetics

• The international phonetic alphabet (French)
• IPA font
• A page of introductory phonetics
• An online phonology course (designed by Received Pronunciation (i.e., Standard British English) speakers).
• ASCII IPA schemes - every linguist needs to know how to transcribe phoneticly, but what can you do with something as hopeless as ASCII? Use this, of course.

Historical Linguistics

• Indo-European and the Comparative Method - "everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method) but were afraid to ask!"
• Nostratic, a reconstructed language that many think pushes the limits of the powers of the theory behind historical linguistics
• Protolanguage - interesting attempt to prove that the protolanguage (i.e. first human language) can be reconstructed scientifically (one should, however, methodologically take this with grain of salt - it's rather iffy, at best).
• "Lana Schwebel on Saussure" (subtitle: "Saussure (or not so sure...)")
• Here's a rather odd page claiming that all of reconstructive linguistics is one giant Indo-European Fraud. We learn from this sage that all the languages of modern Europe were invented by Benedictine monks in the 12^th century. Isn't pseudoscience fun? :)

Linguistic Theory

• "The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America" - paper by the famed sociolinguist William Labov detailing recent dialectical changes in North American communities.
• Lexeme-Morpheme Based Morphology
• Phoevos Panagiotidis's essay on the Internal Structure of English pronouns
• Just what is Phonology? John Hutton explains.
• A grammar of modern English which is written as if English were not a well-known language.

Links and Resources

• The Human Languages Page - all sorts of stuff.
• The Eclectic Company - Languages and Linguistics (a link page)
• Ancient Scripts of the World
• Nifto little Web of Morphology - links about morphology
• The LINGUIST List - email fora for discussion of linguistic related topics
• The Ethnologue - information about many of the world's languages.
• The sci.lang newsgroup FAQ.
• See also: sci.lang

Just what are they?

• the alt.language.artificial FAQ

How to make 'em:

• Richard Kennaway's page is to date the most documented and well-sourced place on the web -- go there.
• For a (probably more complete) list of artificial and planned languages, see Jeffery Henning's Model Languages Page
• Rick Harrison's Artificial Language Lab
• Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit
• Rick Morneau's series of essays: Designing an Artificial Language

Some of my favorites:

• Feorran - conlang based on Antarctic languages. Very interesting, with ablaut and all!
• Quenya - J. R. R. Tolkien's language which he designed for his elven race.
• Elet Anta - John Fisher's language; has a comprehensive grammar, mostly morphology with some phonology and syntax thrown in.
• Teonaht - Sally Caves' work is just beautiful; truly the work of a poet (a good one).
• Watakassí - ergative language of the Kassí family. Related to Eastern.
• Danovën - fellow conlanger in search of a purely logical language.

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