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Ancient Egyptian Language Discussion List Etruscan Phrases Yahoo's Latin Links Back to top
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Circolwyrde Wordhord Old French Language Page Back to top
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Warlinenn Larry Trask's Basque Page The Finnish Language
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Quechua Language Homepage
Curso de Quechua
e-postaris's Homepage (Romany) Bjoco's Homepage Back to top
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Internet Living Swahili Dictionary Learning Practical Turkish
The Virtual Shtetl: Yiddish Language and Culture
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Indo-European Languages Index of Native American Language Resources on the
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Pig Latin Polari: A Cinderella Among Languages
The Alternative Dictionaries Universal Survey of Languages World
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This site is great fun, but the
serious scholar will find it useful as well. Everything you
wanted to know about the language of the pharaohs (but were
afraid to ask), including an explanation of hieroglyphs. There is
also a section on Coptic, the direct descendant of Ancient
Egyptian. You don't have to subscribe unless you want to
contribute to the discussion.
Comprehensive. 'Nuff said. You could also have a quick look at my own modest (extremely
so) introduction to the Latin case system.
Want to read Beowulf in the
original? Want to know more about the language they were speaking
last time Millennium Madness hit these fair shores (No Dome, and
all the cows were sane, can't have been too bad!)? Following this
link will bring you to Anglo-Saxon teaching resources links at
the Labyrinth (I
include this link to the main site for all you medievalists. Not
to be missed!).
You've been caught in a temporal storm and now find yourself in England, 1050 (that's AD, not am). What's the first thing you ask on meeting someone? "Where can I plug in my modem?", of course. Well, temporal anomaly or not, you've got to check your email. Unsurprisingly you're met with a blank stare. What you should have said was "Where can I plug in my feorransprecaweccend?" This website supplies an Anglo-Saxon vocabulary for the twenty-first century. No technofreak can afford to be without it.
If you can read modern French, you
shouldn't have too much difficulty with Old French, although a
dictionary might be useful. I would say that the modern-English-speaker
who is competent in French will find Old French more accessible
than Middle English (the English of Chaucer), and
decidedly more accessible than Old English.
My own introduction to Old French is under construction as we speak.
Cornish Language website (Warlinenn means 'online' ). And no, I didn't put this under modern languages by mistake. Visit the site to find out why.
No-frills website bursting with
information. Excellent FAQ. Links to other Basque sites.
Comprehensive site from About.com - The Human Internet
[SNIFF SNIFF]It appears that this page is no more. I have left the link, though, because clicking on it takes you to the parent directory. Perhaps Jesse will be putting the page up again in the future.
Here's what I had to say about the page when it was up and running:
I was thrilled to find this page because
I have been searching the net since my earliest surfing days for
something on Romanes. Even the various Roma ('Gypsy') pages weren't
of much help. Jesse Lynch is an American translator, living in
the Czech Republic, who is in the process of learning the
language. There's not much at present, but there are some song
lyrics and sound files. A site I'm going to be visiting at
regular intervals.
An Italian site which includes Jesse Lynch's English translations of Rom songs. Hooray!
Much more than just a dictionary. Grammar,
pronunciation, discussion group, and even an online translator.
English, like most of the languages of
Europe, belongs to the great Indo-European language family. The
parent language, Proto-Indo-European is thought to have been
spoken before 3,000 BCE. Not all the languages of Europe belong
to the family. Notable exceptions are Estonian, Finnish,
Hungarian, and Basque, which may well have a claim to be the
oldest language in Europe.
Ouyay on'tday owknay atwhay I'may
alkingtay aboutay? Eeshshay! Ouyay eednay isthay agepay.
TRANSLATION: You don't know what
I'm talking about? Sheesh! You need this page.
Polari was originally a theatrical argot,
but was adopted by the gay community. Many of the words, eg, gay
and camp, have passed into mainstream
English.
International slang. If you want to be 'colourful'
in other languages - from Acadian to Zulu - this is the place for
you.
This collaborative project hopes to
create "a major reference work - a general survey of the
world's languages suitable for the linguistic beginner and the
expert alike." Unfortunately it hasn't been updated since
1998, but is still a good source of information on numerous
languages, including Ferengi. Ferengi? Wot, no Klingon?
An exploration of International English from a British perspective.
Everything you could possibly want to know about constructing a language.
This site is dedicated to the languages
created by J R R Tolkien. If you've always had a burning desire
to learn Elvish, this is the place to go.
Despite the spelling, the Centre is in
Washington DC. You can buy (online) various self-instructional
materials in more than 200 languages.
Foreign Language booksellers of London.
Not only books, but videos, CDs, cassettes, CD-ROMs.