Language Portraits

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

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/

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 Tree

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

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

Language Families

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

Ethnologue

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

Language Museum

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

Languages of the World

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

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/

UCLA Language Materials Project Index Pages

Information on less-commonly taught languages.
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/

Yamada Language Center

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

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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/

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

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 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/

Convent of Pater Noster

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

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

World Languages

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

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/

LinguaShop.com

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