Miscellaneous Language Pages

A page by Keith Winkler, another Anthro-guy with ochen good taste, with some fun Linguistic Links, emphasizing Germanic and Celtic languages (And Elvish, too!).

The Ethnologue Database provides data on over 6,000 languages from all over the world. Information on any language can be accessed by geographical region, by language/dialect name, or by language family. This information is an online manifestation of the Ethnologue volume edited by Barbara F. Grimes. A great place to start.

"Ancient" Languages:

The Akkadian Language page provides an overview of the Akkadian language and cuneiform writing system. If you're ever in ancient Babylon, it wouldn't hurt to know a few tourist phrases.
Hebrew is, of course, both an "ancient" language in that it was spoken in a currently recognizable form several millennia ago, but it is also a living language, being resurrected relatively recently as the official language of the state of Israel. Check out Macom Networking's Hebrew Language Pages for an overview, and even hear some spoken Hebrew!

Greek Stuff!

Dartmouth professor Jeremy Rutter's discussion of Mycenaean Greek and the Linear B texts is part of a larger course on Aegean archaeology, all of which is online. Very, very well done.
Berkeley's website provides another discussion of Mycenaean Greek, with a detailed presentation of the Linear B syllabary itself.
Greek tragedies online! This Cambridge University page on Greek Tragedy links to hypertext copies of, as far as I can tell, all of the extant Greek Tragedies in both English and the original Greek, compiled as part of the Tufts Perseus Project.
Speaking of the Perseus Project, here is the link to Perseus itself. This is truly one of the most beautiful things I've seen on the Web: an "evolving digital library" of information on Greek history, archaeology, and literature, with hypertext-formatted original Greek texts (everything from Homer to the Attic tragedians to Xenophon to Plutarch), English translations, Greek language aids and reference materials, and anything else you might ever need. I'm in awe.
Micheal Palmer's Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway provides access to a strong, well-chosen base of online resources for the study of ancient Greek, with an emphasis on Hellenistic Greek. General linguistics resources are included as well.
The Hellenic Page offers several links to pages dealing with Greek language and the Hellenic world.
For those in a koine mood, this Hellenistic Greek page maintained by James K. Tauber offers a terrific resource, inlcuding a Hellenistic Greek Grammar and a collection of papers on Hellenistic Greek linguistics.
The folks at Hungry Frog offer some ...interesting software for building vocabulary in Latin and Homeric Greek.

Native American Languages:

The SSILA (The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas) Homepage is a terrific resource for past and current NA language research, including an extensive listing of articles from over 100 journals and abstracts from over 200 theses and dissertations. The site is sponsored by the Native American Language Center at UC Davis. Check it out!
The Cree Language Home offers an overview of the Cree language, as well as some beginning language lessons. So get started!
A Navajo Language page, including a Navajo font which has all of those enchanting diacritics. Ya'at'eeh!
Or, more broadly, a page on Athabaskan linguistics, covering many different aspects of this language group.

Miscellaneous Other ("Modern") Languages:

More Greek! The folks at the Hellenic Electronic Center ("The Shrine of the Modern Greek Language") offer Greek Through the Internet, an introduction and overview of Modern Greek. Milate ellinika? Na mathainete tora!
Ernie's Learn to Speak a Little Hawaiian page is another Hawai'ian language page, with beginning lessons to give the uninitiated a taste of the language.
An internet Hungarian-English Dictionary is available.
Ken Butler's Japanese CyberTutorials page is mostly an advertisement for Mr. Butler's CD-ROM software, but it has some useful Japanese language content. [Note: As of 10/16/97, this link was down. I don't know yet whether this is temporary or permanent.]
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese Grammar is a useful resource, but it is text-only (no HTML formatting).
The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary.
A Welsh Language page.

tlhIngan Hol De' Daqmey:

The Klingon Language Institute. reH taHjaj tlhIngan Hol!
toDbaj's Home Page (or toDbaj De') is dedicated to the love of tlhIngan Hol, and is in Klingon. (There's also an English-only option for all you tera'ngan Hol jatlhwI'pu' out there.)

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