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LING 242 - Languages of the World

This guide is for students in Dr. De Los Reyes's LING 242 course at Oxford College.

Linguistics Websites

Linguist List

A mailing list and website for linguists, The Linguist List provides information on language and linguistic analysis. The site hosts archives of more than 100 additional linguistics mailing lists and contains a database of language and language-family information and recommendations for digitizing data on endangered languages.

Linguistic Resources on the Internet

This page from SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) International bills itself as "a topically organized list of resources elsewhere on the Internet that may be of interest to the linguist." Covers the principal categories of linguistic research.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World

Online edition allows one to find information regarding geographic distribution of languages, languages of special interest, nearly extinct languages, etc. Browse by language name, language family, or country name. Includes maps.

 

Autoethnography Resources