Lukol Directory: Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural

Languages on the Web
30,000 selected links to as many as 400 different languages, plus the first internet library of multilingual parallel texts.
http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/

Yamada Language Center
Assistance of foreign language studies such as tapes, CDs, computer lab, self study program, international film series and a language exchange.
http://babel.uoregon.edu/

UCLA Language Materials Project Index Pages
Information on less-commonly taught languages.
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/

Barrett Translations' Language Resources
Language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration.
http://www.btranslations.com/Resources.asp

Language Families
Introduction to the major language families, including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic.
http://www.krysstal.com/langfams.html

The Human-Languages Page
The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The over 1900 links in the HLP database have been hand-reviewed to bring the best language links the Web has to offer.
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

Language Families
Maps of the various language families, with background reference material, based on Encyclopaedia Britannica material.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/arjenbolhuis/langua...

Liberation Philology
Computer programs to help beginning and intermediate students learn vocabulary and basic grammar of a variety of ancient, medieval, and modern languages.
http://members.aol.com/libphil/

Language of the Week
A different world language is examined each week. Includes archives of past weeks.
http://thor.prohosting.com/~linguist/langu...

Jennifer's Language Page
How to say hello, please, thank you, and other basic social phrases, in hundreds of languages. Includes links to dictionaries, phrase guides, and other resources for many of the world's languages and countries.
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/

The World's Top Twenty Spoken Languages
Estimates for the world's top 20 languages (given in millions) on the basis of the number of mother-tongue (first-language) speakers and population estimates for those countries where the language has official status.
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/COMMUNICAT...

European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages
Promotes and funds minority languages throughout Europe.
http://www.eblul.org/

The Genetic Unity of Black African, Elamite, Dravidian, and Sumerian Languages
Attempt at showing a genetic relationship among four language groups not normally thought of as related.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/7051/el...

Language Miniatures
Mini-essays about human language in its endless kaleidoscope of aspects.
http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/

Language Museum
Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.
http://www.language-museum.com/

Muturzikin - Linguistic maps
Linguistic maps of Europe, Africa, America and Oceania. Priority is given to endangered languages and minority linguistic people.
http://www.muturzikin.com/

LinguaShop.com
Online shop of teaching materials on various European languages (including some quite rare ones) plus Esperanto.
http://www.linguashop.com/

Language Tree
List of world language hierarchies.
http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/langtree.txt

Language Families
Typology of the world's languages from the Fu Jen Catholic University. In English and Chinese.
http://www.ling.fju.edu.tw/typology/

Convent of Pater Noster
The Lord's Prayer in more than one thousand languages and dialects.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/

The Linguist List: Language Resources
Searchable information on language families, employment opportunities, publications, text and computer tools, language study and pedagogy.
http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/ne...

LMBM: Table of Contents
The personal website of Robert Beard, devoted to the study of morphology, especially Beard's theory of 'Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology'. It is linked to an index of on-line dictionaries and grammars, and several pages of linguistic fun.
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/

Multilingual Data Bank
Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples from the rarer languages.
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/uhlcs/

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language, dialect, and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families.
http://www.ethnologue.com/

The Rosetta Project
Working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone, a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages.
http://www.rosettaproject.org

Language Portraits
Translations of one poem into 82 languages by native speakers.
http://languageportraits.net/

The List of Language Lists
List-servers for a wide variety of language studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien.
http://www.evertype.com/langlist.html

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Ainu
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Austro-Asiatic
Mayan
Penutian
Niger-Kordofanian
Burushaski
Chukotko-Kamchatkan
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Sumerian
Elamite
Languages of the Americas
Languages of Eurasia
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