Web pages on "Natural":

123world - Languages of Our World
Links to world language sites.
http://www.123world.com/languages/

A Web of On-line Grammars
This website contains links to all of the serious if not complete grammars of languages on the Web. It currently contains links to grammars of more than 80 different languages.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html

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

Convent of Pater Noster
The Lord's Prayer in more than one thousand languages and dialects.
http://198.62.75.1/www1/pater/

Ethnologue
Extensive database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map, language family, country, and language name. From Summer Institute of Linguistics. Also offers print and CD-ROM versions.
http://www.ethnologue.com/

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/

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

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

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/

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

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

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

Languages of the World
A description of major world languages and language families, with links.
http://membres.lycos.fr/dupac/languages.html

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/

Liberation Philology
low-cost, no-nonsense, user-friendly computer programs to help beginning and intermediate students master the vocabulary and/or basic grammar of a variety of ancient, medieval, and modern languages.
http://members.aol.com/libphil/

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/

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/elam2.htm

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/

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/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/langres/index.cfm

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

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

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/COMMUNICATIONS/TopLanguages.html

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

Vocabulary Test
A java applet to test your language skills in French, Spanish, German and Czech.
http://www.mujweb.cz/www/valsoraj/jazyky/a2f.html

World Languages
Directory of language families and individual language pages, online dictionaries, and other resources.
http://www.ericslaymaker.com/lang.html

Yamada Language Center
Extensive information and web links on languages.
http://babel.uoregon.edu/

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