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An attempt to create a list of concepts, described in English, along with words to express those concepts in several natural and artificial languages.
Annotated links to resources for teachers of a variety of languages.
From an email list on foreign language learning in Grades K-8. Designed for parents, teachers and administrators.
Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples from the rarer languages.
Grammar, phonology, dictionary, and glossary of linguistic terms.
Constructed language derived in part from Japanese in Morioka Hiroyuki's book Seikai no Monshou.
Documentation site of Romanid, an interlatinid naturalistic constructed language.
Known also as EL is a rational multi-method language designed by its creator Yoshiko McFarland.
An encyclopedia article on Basic English, including sections on grammar, criticisms, and word lists.
Archives of Europanto in Europanto, English and French.
A new international language, designed to be a pidgin to be shared by people around the world.
In-depth introduction to language creation, by Mark Rosenfelder.
An essay on the nature of artificial languages, by Robert Isenberg.
Description with examples of a language reversal in Argentinian Spanish.
Describes the term language game and gives examples from different languages.
Presents a constructed language claimed to promote the communication of facts in courts of law. Features dictionary, sentence structure, essays.
Controlled language used to publish Christian texts for non-native English speakers. Discusses vocabulary, syntax, production tools, pros and cons.
Paper by Robert Austerlitz describing some of the shared characteristics of these languages including syntax, morphology, and phonology.
Vocabulary of the Kutthung or Kattang dialect once spoken along the southern bank of the Karuah river and south shore of Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.
Essay by Jan Wohlgemut discussing the social surroundings and grammatical change of present-day Dyirbal as compared to the language Dixon described in 1968.
Online version of a book containing fairly detailed grammatical notes on Burushaski, by Dick Grune (available in PostScript or PDF format).
Comparative presentation of the numerals 1-10 in the Indo-European languages, including reconstructions in Proto-Indo-European and various intermediate proto (reconstructed) languages.
From the UCLA Language Materials Project.
Published from 1982, all of its 50 numbers are available online. The articles, in English or French, deal with the Mande languages, one of the branches (or families) of Niger-Congo.
Number words in a variety of pidgins, creoles, and constructed languages.
A journal that focuses on the study of sign language and the people who use it. Quarterly archives of the journal are available online from Fall 2000.
Searchable bibliography project aiming to collect all the linguistic and language related work done on the Siouan-Catawban languages.
Society based in Germany, and devoted to Uralic and Altaic studies.
Information on Finno-Ugric languages spoken in Russia.
Nonprofit organization offers language tutorials, related merchandise, mailing list and membership information.
Includes documentation of all canon, careful analyses, links, and reference materials.
A two-way translator and morphological analyzer, available online or as a download.
Includes dictionary and analysis program, translations of English works, links, and other resources.
Bachelor's thesis in sociology by Yens Wahlgren. Marc Okrand, the creator of Klingon, and 18 advanced Klingonists are interviewed.
A short article by Glen Proechel, first published in "Esperanto U.S.A." in 1994, comparing the Klingon language to Esperanto.
Summary of the Quenya grammar, includes examples.
A brief description of the Tengwar script.
Essays on the tongues of Arda, Tolkien's youthful invented languages, glossaries, Elvish poems by other authors, linguistic discussions, and links to further resources.
Multilingual Information Center about Esperanto: Information in many languages about Esperanto
Description of Esperanto with answers to arguments against its use as an international language.
Interactive multilingual dictionary of the international language Ido. In Ido.
A collection of resources on Volapük, including a handbook, a dictionary, a 10-lesson course, the New Testament, and links.
A short introductory article about Lojban written by Robin Turner.
The search engine, directory, and groups interface in Pig Latin.
Newsletter, membership information, events. [English, French]
Welcomes both ESL and LOTE teachers. Covers events, membership, publications, teaching suggestions.
Covers events, publications, membership.
Newsletter, events, scholarships and awards, immersion activities.
An introduction to the Arabic language, how to study it and common English words which find their roots in Arabic.
From the UCLA Language Materials Project.