Dear foreros, This thread is for you to suggest resources for languages discussed in this forum. Once approved by a moderator, suggested links will be moved to this fully moderated thread and deleted from this one. It is not possible for moderators to assess the quality of the links for languages we do not understand. Native speakers are encouraged to point out problems with both links suggested here and links in the other thread. We encourage you to help us collect as many helpful links as possible. Please abide by the following guidelines: 1. Do not post links for languages with a separate forum on WR. If you would like to suggest a link for those languages, contact the moderator(s) of the appropriate forum. 2. Do not send us PMs with links. We do not want to forego feedback from other natives. 3. Before you post, click here to make sure that the link you want to propose has not yet been added. 4. Do not post links to websites that are commercial (some unobtrusive advertising is acceptable as long as the language resource is available for free); contain illegal material; violate the rules of WR in any way. 5. To maximize clarity, please stick to the following required format: Language Category label Link - a brief description in English Example: Turkish Grammar http://www.cromwell-intl.com/turkish/ - basics of Turkish grammarCategory labels include, but are not limited to: Dictionaries, grammar, online courses, pronunciation, etymology, writing, vocabulary for tourists. 6. Most of the links should be language-related, but general information about culture and history is admissible. 7. You may provide translations of important navigational terms for sites not in English. An example of a final product: Polish resources
A reminder: Please keep the descriptions succinct (3 lines are not succinct) and do not forget about category labels and language names as well. Example: for Turkish Online courses: http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/tur/ - lessons for beginners with audio files http://www.turkishclass.com/turkish_lessons_qdemir - lessons for beginners Moderators who will deal with your links are not necessarily proficient in all involved languages. Please make it easier for us. Jana
Multilingual: http://www.ielanguages.com A link to tutorials in various Indo-European languages as well as Indonesian, Turkish and Finnish as well as comparative tutorials all of which I found very very useful.
A collection of very good Russian-Ossetian and Ossetian-Russian dictionaries http://slovar.iriston.com/
Hungarian Grammar: hungarianreference.com – A thorough grammatical guide, plus same basic phrases Online courses: unilang.org/course.php?res=70 – Hungarian for Beginners: 4 lessons with exercises and a pronounciation guide (IPA)
Scottish Gaelic: http://www.hp.europe.de/kd-europtravel/gaelic/gaelic0.htm A beginners course for Gaelic in German. Irish Gaeilge: http://www.braesicke.de/gramadac.htm A short Irish grammar, written in German Multilingual resources - pronunciation: IPA (official site): http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html IPA charts; and there's a link on this website to audio files which could be downloaded here: http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/handbook_downloads.htm but are copyrighted by IPA and may only be downloaded for personal use. Multilingual resources - phonetics and perception/audio files: Ladefoged's sound archives/UCLA phonetics: http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index/sounds.html Huge set of audio files (founded by the renowned phonetician Peter Ladefoged, 1925-2006). This is the main page of the site which also offers a course in phonetics: http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index.html while here, again founded by Ladefoged, sounds can be searched by language: http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/ Multilingual resources - writing (contributed by Athaulf): Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/ Unicode homepage; links to individual charts here: http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html http://www.unicode.org/charts/ How to display Unicode on your browser: To display the symbols shown in these charts copy-paste the following text into a WordPad [or similar programme] document, replace the numbers by those shown in the Unicode charts and safe as file.html; if you open this document with your browser Unicode characters will be displayed: <html> <body> <font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"> а̀еѝоу̀рѐио <br><br> àeìoùrèi </font> </body> </html> These symbols then can be copy-pasted to any text you are writing on your browser. If you want to check if your browser supports a specific set of Unicode characters you may do so here: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/browser-coverage.html
Nepali: http://www.ms.dk/sw75174.asp - PDF grammars, mp3 files, video and more, all free. Great site.
Cambodian: http://www.bongthom.com/AKOnline/selectchapterek.asp - Various sound files, with some rather disjointed notes on grammar. http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/Default.htm - Has grammar and conversation section. You need to download the fonts to use them properly, though. http://books.google.com/books?id=_I...rn+spoken+cambodian&ei=SxKhSez_KJLYlQT0yrSNAg - Franklin Huffman's "Modern Spoken Cambodian." You can't download it, but you can virtually read the whole text. http://www.cls.yale.edu/cambodian/ - All the sound files for Huffman's book, above. http://www.pratyeka.org/csw/ - Huffman's primer on written Cambodian, PDF downloadable. http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Cambodian - Foreign Service Institute books, with MP3 downloads of drills and links to other PDF files of US Government material.
Multilingual source language : Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish target language : Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish Vocabulary http://bestvoc.com provides basic vocabulary (4 words every day, with grammar and example) from 7 languages into 10 languages
Friesland's Afûk has added two introductory courses for (West) Frisian and Dutch on its VoLANGteers website (volangteers.nl - click the headphones). An introduction to North Frisian (for West Frisian speakers) can be found on Henk Wolf's Skriuwsels site (skriuwsels.net - first page)
Multilingual: I'm not familiar with this area of WR, so perhaps there's a better place for this, in which case I trust the mods will move it, but, seeing the number of "unknown language" posts I thought you might be interested in this language identifier: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/tools/guesser You type (or copy and paste) a few words in and it will try to identify the language for you. Not sure how it would work with character-based languages, though.
Google Translate can now produce transliteration of many non-Roman based languages for which it has translations (currently with the exception of Arabic, Persian and Hebrew). It work pretty good for Chinese (pinyin is not perfect), Japanese (Roma-ji), Korean (Roma-ja), Russian. Have checked with some words I know in Greek, Hindi and Thai. The Thai transliteration symbols are a bit strange sometimes but it's some indication. Definitely worth looking at. http://translate.google.com/
Vietnamese online dictionary, looks pretty good, translations from English are arranged by sense, there are example sentences: http://vdict.com/ The transliteration tool has been updated - improved and has more languages. http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic
Dicionarios en liña/Diccionarios en línea: http://www.estraviz.org. (con grafía aportuguesada) http://digalego.com/diccionario (con normativa oficial) Dicionario inglés-galego/Diccionario inglés-gallego: http://sli.uvigo.es/dicionario/ Tradutor español-galego e galego español/Traductor español-gallego y gallego-español: Open Trad apertium Instituto Cervantes (contempla máis linguas hispánicas) Enciclopedias en liña/Enciclopedias en línea: EGU Dicionario de fraseoloxía/Diccionario de fraseología (en grafía aportuguesada): http://www.agal-gz.org/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=list_content&eid=3 Dicionario francés-galego/Diccionario francés-gallego: Freelang Dicionario galego de construción naval/Diccionario gallego de construcción naval: http://dicionarionavalgalego Dicionario galego de tecnoloxía informática/Diccionario gallego de tecnología informática: Digatic
1. Dicionarios de galego en galego: Estraviz Ir Indo R.A.G. Dicionario de dicionarios 2. Enciclopedia en galego: E.G.U. 3. Vocabularios especializados: Construción naval Tecnoloxías informáticas 4. Fraseoloxía: http://www.agal-gz.org/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=list_content&eid=3 5. Dicionarios bilingües galego-outras linguas: Galego-Inglés, Inglés-galego Galego-Francés, Francés-Galego 6. Tradutores automáticos: Open Trad apertium Outra versión do Open Trad na Universidade de Vigo Instituto Cervantes 7. Recursos xerais para a lingua galega: Instituto da Lingua Galega Consello da Cultura Galega 8. Dialectoloxía: A fala eo-naviega A fala do Val de Xálima 1 A fala do Val de Xálima 2 O Valverdeiru Vocabulario de San Martín de Trevellu A fala do Xálima en PROEL Galego berciano 1 Galego berciano 2 Galego berciano 3: Ensayos poéticos… de Antonio Fernández y Morales con vocabulario (pxs. 371 e seguintes) Galego d’As Portelas Zonas dialectais do galego 9. Historia da lingua, o galego medieval: Tesouro informatizado la lingua galega 10. Estudos lingüísticos e recuersos varios: Estudos de Lingüística Galega Vocabulario Ortográfico da Lingua galega (V.O.L.G.) LOIA No pretendí ser muy exhaustivo y faltan los comentarios a cada enlace ya que es muy desigual el valor de cada uno de ellos. Iré incorporando comentarios sobre valor y uso. Muchos enlaces remiten a nuevos enlaces muy valiosos, lo cual me ha ahorrado ponerlos aquí para no repetirme. Para un extranjero es bueno empezar por el enlace LOIA. El tema de la dialectología del gallego llamado exterior (fuera de las fronteras políticas de Galicia) está envenenado por vanas discusiones políticas, aunque los filólogos tenemos muy claro cuales son las fronteras lingüísticas. El tema de la relación del gallego con el portugués es otro tema muy discutido sobre el que se tienen visiones diferentes y coincidentes a ambas riberas del Miño.
Ladin Dolomitan (a.k.a. Ladin Standard) Grammar http://www.spell-termles.ladinia.net/documents/gramatica_LS_2001.pdf This "Gramatica dl ladin standard (GLS)", together with the "Dizionar dl ladin standard (DLS)", which is still in progress, are an effort made by all local cultural institutions to unify the several branches of the Ladin Dolomitan (language spoken by about 25,000 persons on the area of the Dolomites in Italy) in a common written language.
Indonesian Dictionaries http://www.sederet.com/ - Good online dictionary, EN-ID & ID-EN. http://pusatbahasa.diknas.go.id/kbbi/ - Online dictionary of the Indonesian language regulator (Pusat Bahasa). ID-ID only.
Recursos para o galego: Dicionario de Pronuncia Xosé Luís Regueira Versión Definitiva As palabras galegas coa súa transcrición en alfabeto fonético AFI. ¡Fundamental!
Thai Dictionary http://dict.longdo.com/ Multiple Bilingual Dictionary Search and Compilation Service English - Thai, Japanese - Thai, German - Thai, French - Thai Dictionary
Tibetan Forum http://www.langues-du-tibet.net Trilingual forum (English, French, Tibetan) dedicated to Tibetan languages (literary and spoken dialects).
Resources on Turkic languages(in French)(PDF format) http://www.turuz.com/page/firansaca-kitablar.aspx Resources on Turkic languages(in English)(PDF format) http://www.turuz.com/page/ingilizce-kitablar.aspx Resources on Turkic languages(in Farsi)(PDF format) http://www.turuz.com/page/farsca-kitablar.aspx For using above mentioned resources knowing Turkish or Azeri(due to Site's language) is prerequisite. Books in Azerbaijani(PDF format)in Azerbaijan National Library http://anl.az/ Books about Arabic language in Turkish(PDF format) http://www.turuz.com/page/ereb-dili-kitablar.aspx Books about Uighur and turkmen languages:Grammars,Dictionaries etc(PDF format) http://www.turuz.com/page/uyqurlar.aspx http://www.turuz.com/page/turkmenler.aspx
Wolof (Wollof) dictionaries, grammar, pronunciation, etymology, vocabulary for tourists, etc. http://JangaWolof.com/ - A website/blog about the Wolof language & culture of Senegambia (Senegal & The Gambia). Also touches on the other languages of the region (French, Arabic, Pulaar, Mandinka, etc.)
Amharic Vocabulary for tourists www dot easyethiopiatravel dot com/common-amharic-words dot shtml - useful phrases and words for tourists and foreigners
http://www.denisowski.org/Vietnamese/Vietnamese.html Downloadable Vietnamese-English dictionary (>52,000 entries, UTF8 text file) and vocab lists
Lithuanian Reading material www.postilla.mch.mii.lt/kalba/baltai.en Information on Lithuanian history and language explained in English. Lithuanian Linguistics www.lituanus.org Quarterly journal covering linguistics. Articles in English.
Latvian Reading material www.balticsealibrary.org Multilingual. Short stories by authors from the Baltic Sea area translated into Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish, German, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Polish... Can be used as a learning resource (comparing translations, for instance). Learning by reading. Latvian Reading material www.literature.lv/en Latvian literature with translations into German, Swedish, English. Latvian Reading material www.latvianliterature.lv Literature translated into English, magazine about Latvian literature Latvian Audio lessons www.50languages.org 100 mp3 files. Basic sentences. Many language combinations available, such as German-Latvian, English-Latvian, Russian-Latvian,... Latvian Learning blog www.learninglatvian.rozentali.com English. Explaining basics and everyday life expressions Latvian Linguistics www.baltistika.lt Articles on linguistic issues. Lithuanian and Latvian. Latvian Reading material www.pasakas.lv Short stories (fairytales, stories for children). Simple language, can be used as a learning resource. Text, audio, short animated films.
Mari (Uralic language) Textbook with audio files www.mari-language.com Russian and English. Downloadable pdf.
Livonian Phrasebook www.eraksti.lv Latvian-Livonian-English phrase book, basics of grammar explained. Downloadable as a pdf. This is the direct link: www.eraksti.lv/fetchbook.php?urlkey=1312742
Estonian Video course https://www.keeleklikk.ee/en/welcome - Beginners' lessons building up to intermediate level - direct link to the English version of the course Estonian: Reading material http://balticsealibrary.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=104 - Multilingual site, short stories, cross-translated Estonian: Reading material http://www.estonica.org/en/ - Estonian texts on issues like geography and history translated into English and Russian Estonian: Reading material http://www.ut.ee/verse/index.php?&lan=eng - Estonian poetry with explanations in English Estonian Dictionary http://portaal.eki.ee/dict/ies/ - English-Estonian
Here's an interesting one. A user called Aydintashtar linked this over 5 years ago. It's website for Azerbaijani Turkish. Whether or not it should be listed here depends on interpretation. I consider Azerbaijani to be sort of like what American English is to British English. (Except you know, Azerbaijani was influenced by Persian and to a lesser degree Russian) But hey this is the Turkish forum, so why not list it. http://anadilbilimocagi.blogspot.com
www.iomla.net/vocadiv Is an online dialect dictionary of Romagnolo Imolese->Italiano->Romagnolo Imolese. Imolese dialect is spoken till today in the district town of Imola. The district of Imola linguistically is part of Romagna that includes part of the Italian province of Bologna and the provinces of Ravenna, Forlì and Rimini. The Romagnolo dialect is also spoken in the Republic of San Marino and in the province of Pesaro
Basque Dictionaries Dictionnaire étymologique basque-français-espagnol-anglais Etymological dictionary of Basque; accepts partial words as input and produces output in French, Spanish and English.
