Natural

Linguistic sketch of Shona, by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a major Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe.

Shona course by the Foreign Service Institute, published in 1965, comprising 34 half-hour lessons with supportive text.

Pronunciation guide, language learning worksheets, and cultural information.

A sociolinguistic survey of the Sam People on the Rai Coast of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, including ethnolinguistic identity, language and dialect boundaries, and language vitality.

A complete reprint of: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (161), A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Trade Language of Oregon. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by George Gibbs. Washington: Smithsonian Institution: March, 1863.

An analysis of the alleged Irish influence on Montserrat Creole.

Brief encyclopedia article on Finnish-English pidgin.

A detailed description of Russian English pidgin.

Includes texts in Creole as well as information on Creole.

A summary of the influence of Portuguese in Asia, including a map and population estimates.

Mailing list for those who interpret for the deaf in churches or work in deaf ministries.

SignPost is a supplier of British Sign Language (BSL) services. This bi-lingual website has free BSL tutorials, signed daily news headlines and TV listings of signed programmes.

Promotes communication between deaf and hearing people, by offering nationally recognised assessments and accreditation in British Sign Language and other forms of communication used by deaf people.

At Trinity College, University of Dublin. Links and course information.

Information on LSM from 1996.

Descriptions of signs organized by subject.

Information on NSL from 1996.

Dutch company providing hard and software. Computer based Texttelephone, Computer NGT Dictionary (1600 DSL), PictoPrintSystem (2200), Outdoors warning system.

Articles, stories from parents, discussion forums, tips on finding a good class locally, and products.

Classes and workshops for babies, toddlers and preschool children. Many locations in Ontario, with additional locations in the rest of Canada and a few in the United States.

Line drawings of the LSE alphabet from deafblind.com. Shown from both signer and receiver perspective.

A community of people interested in learning about Chinese and Chinese culture. Forum topics include history, non-Mandarin Chinese, grammar and vocabulary.

Annoted links to handpicked websites about learning Chinese, including lessons, dictionaries, and dialects.

Chinese grammar explained, including examples.

Online keyboard generating Tibetan text which can be copied or saved as a file.

Pronunciation guide, language learning worksheets, and cultural information.

Basic demographic and linguistic information.

Linguistic description of Lakhota, a Siouan Language by David S. Rood and Allan R. Taylor. Online version of article originally in the "Handbook of North American Indians, Vol.17 (Languages)", Smithsonian Institution, p.440-482, 1996.

Sections on pronunciation, grammar and basic phrases.

A forum for those learning to speak Thai.

Article about the mixture of Spanish and Guaraní known as Jopará.

Part of the series "Indigenous Minority Languages of Russia".

Grammar, morphology, phonology, syntax, links.

Pronunciation guide, language learning worksheets, and cultural information.

Orthography, sample text, and links.

Article including a phonological inventory and grammar information.

Orthography, sample text, and links.

Pronunciation guide, language learning worksheets, and cultural information.

Pronunciation guide, language learning worksheets, and cultural information.

This institute in Morocco offers courses in Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Moroccan Arabic.

Offers courses in Moroccan and Modern Standard Arabic, Tamazight (Berber), French, Spanish and English for students from all over the world.

Offers a range of educational products designed to make the learning of the Arabic alphabet easy and fun, including a colorful set of alphabet pieces.

Software company that develops high-performance Optical Character Recognition software for content management, forms processing and library digitization in Latin and Arabic scripts, including Farsi, Pashto, Urdu and Arabic OCR.

Institute of Oriental Studies.

Profile of the Azerbaijani language, from the University of California's Language Materials Project.

Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, and pronunciation.

Article by David Harrison discussing the importance of disharmony for theories of vowel harmony.

From the UCLA Language Materials Project.

Wordlist comparing English, Aklanon and Tagalog.

Program at the University of Washington (Seattle) offering instruction in Latvian and Lithuanian (as well as Estonian).