Ethnologue (13th Edition, 1996). This is an electronic source of information on the world's languages. The database is searchable in various ways and information is provided on language affiliation, location, number of speakers, and whether descriptive work has been done on the language.
SSILA. The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the America is the primary organization for those interested in the languages of the western hemisphere. Membership is $10US per year. This website contains information of the acitvities of the Society and links to other sites. Most of the sites below originate from this source.
Survey for California and Other Indian Languages. "The history of American Indian language study at UC Berkeley makes it the top institution of the country in its field. The Department of Linguistics at Berkeley has a long tradition of excellent work in the area of American Indian languages, which was in fact its main focus in its first decades of existence. Dozens of dissertations and hundreds of publications on American Indian languages have been produced by the students and faculty here".
Learn an Endangered Language. "The Endangered Languages Fund ... maintains a page listing regularly taught courses in endangered languages. Many of these are (North) American Indian languages".--SSILA Bulletin #56
The International Clearing House for Endangered Languages. "The International Clearing House for Endangered Languages or ICHEL is located at the Department of Asian and Pacific Linguistics, Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. "
Less commonly taught languages. "... information ... more concerned with language pedagogy generally ... can be found at the University of Minnesota Less Commonly Taught Languages page".--SSILA Bulletin #56
Numbers in more than 2500 languages. The numbers 1-10 in 2,543 languages.
African Language Data Archive. "This is a collaborative project between CSAC (the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing at University of Kent, Canterbury) and CISPAL (The Cambridge Institute for the Study of Pacific and African Languages)."
ArapahoThe Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma now have an official Webste at (http://www.cheyenneandarapaho.org/). Language pages are maintained for both Cheyenne and Arapaho. The Southern Cheyenne page is: http://www.cheyenneandarapaho.org/cheylang.html
Cahto. "The URL for Bill Anderson's Cahto (California Athabaskan) Home Page is changing (see Bulletin #52.4)"--SSILA Bulletin #56
Cherokees of California Homepage. "... organization of people of Cherokee heritage interested in preserving and passing on Cherokee traditions, history and language. Cherokee language lessons (by Richard Francis) are available at this site"--SSILA Bulletin #46
Cheyenne Page. "... maintained by Wayne Leman ... [who] has worked with the Cheyennes for over 20 years, producing both scholarly and language-learning materials".--SSILA Bulletin #46
Hupa. "... the Hupa Language page maintained by Danny Ammon"--SSILA Bulletin #45
Inuktitut. "The Langage of the Inuit People" is maintained by Leo Ussak Elementary School--"The Coolest School in Canada's Arctic"--in Rankin Inlet, NWT (in the soon-to-be Inuit territory of Nunavut). The site features downloadable Inuktitut lessons in Hypercard created by Alexina Kublu and Mick Mallon, and sound files of, among other things, "Amazing Grace" sung in Inuktitut, and the Inuktitut version of "O Canada!" Many links to other sites, including syllabary fonts."--SSILA Bulletin #57
INWEWINAN--Native American Languages. Links to Ojibwa, Seneca, Oneida, Mohawk, Lushootseed, Yucatec Mayan, Navajo, Lakhota, Dakhota, Cree, Choctaw, Cherokee, among others.
Kanienkehaka Language Homepage. Mohawk/Iroquois.
Mayan. "The Yax Te' Foundation, a nonprofit publisher and importer of books about the contemporary Maya of Guatemala (with emphasis on Mayan languages and literatures) has established a joint web site with the Maya Educational Foundation, which provides scholarships for Mayastudents. We would appreciate your visiting us ..., and if you like what you see, mentioning us in the online SSILA Bulletin". --Fernando Pen~alosa, Yax Te' Foundation, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Information on languages of Mexico. "The Mexico branch of SIL is pleased to announce the inauguration of its web site, which ... includes information on the twenty different language families of Mexico".
Nahuatl "People interested in learning Nahuatl--or learning about it--can have many of their FAQs answered ... You'll find serious information about teaching and reference grammars and dictionaries, collections of texts, pegadogical materials, SIL's work, immersion courses in Mexico, and how to subscribe to the NAHUAT-L list"--SSILA Bulletin #56
Prairie Band Potawatomi. "... maintained by Smokey McKinney ... homepage of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Language Project, begun in 1992 by Jim McKinney and Smokey McKinney, both enrolled PBP members, and supported by the Kansas Humanities Council. Good background information and an on-line dictionary (1200 entries, 80 sound files)"--SSILA Bulletin #46
Quechua. There are now several Web sites that offer free Quechua lessons, and Quechua literature ... [This one has] has vocabulary, grammar, dialog and audio files, along with links to other Quechua language web sites.--Russ Gibbons --SSILA Bulletin #39
Kurdish. From the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (New York: Oxford University Press): "Kurdish is a member of the Indo-Iranian branch ... of Indo European. It is spoken in western Turkey, northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, northeastern Syria, and Soviet Armenia, by well over ten million people ..."
Marathi. "Marathi is the language spoken by the native people of Maharashtra. Marathi belongs to the group of Indo-Aryan languages which are a part of the larger of group of Indo-European languages, all of which can be traced back to a common root. Among the Indo-Aryan languages, Marathi is the southern-most language".
Tundra Nenets. "Tundra Nenets, together with Forest Nenets, forms the Nenets group of languages, which belongs to the Samoyed branch of the Finno-Ugrian (Uralic) language family. Nenets was formerly known as Yurak or Yurak Samoyed, both now obsolete".
Turkish. "The Turkish language is spread over a large geographical area in Europe and Asia; recent studies show that this language goes back 5500 years,and perhaps even 8500. At the same time, it is one of the most widely spoken tongues in the world - the sixth most widely spoken , to be precise. It is spoken in the Azeri, the Türkmen, the Tartar, the Uzbek, the Baskurti, the Nogay, the Kyrgyz, the Kazakh, the Yakuti, the Cuvas and other dialects".
Akha. "Akha University - Maesai, 397/1 Sailom Joi Rd., Maesai, Chiangrai, Thailand 57130". From the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (New York: Oxford University Press): A Lolo-Burmese language. "Akha: 260,000 speakers reported in 1990, with 130,000 in southwest Yunnan and Kengtung, China, 100,000 in Burma, 25,000 in Thailand, 5,000 in Laos, and a few in Vietnam. Also called Aka, Ko, Kaw, Ahka, Khako, Kha Ko, Aini, Ekwa, Ikho, or Ikor. Speakers call themselves Akha. Officially called Aini in China and included under the Hani nationality".
Australian Indigenous languages. "This site for Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) languages is part of the Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library".
Austronesian languages. "Austronesian On-Line. A Project of the AN-Lang email list. Association for the Study of Austronesian Languages".
SALON or South Asian Linguistics On the Net.
Western Australian Languages. From SSILA Bulletin #63: "An online version of Nicholas Thieberger, _Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages South of the Kimberley Region_ (1993), an annotated bibliography and guide to the indigenous languages of a large part of Western Australia. Information on individual languages can be found via a geographic, alphabetic, or language family index. Data can be found on: geographical location; names of the language and different spellings that have been used; classification; present number and distribution of speakers; people who have worked intensively to record the language; practical spelling system; language programmes; and bibliographical references to word lists, texts, grammars or sketch grammars, language learning material, and literature in the language. Also included are a pronunciation guide, and some great graphics."
Chinese Linguistics Page. Mandarin. "The Chinese Linguistics Page provides anyone who is interested in this unique language with an unofficial place to exchange and disseminate linguistic information via the WWW technology".
Cantonese. Homepage of the Cantonese Language Association.
Kiribati. "Kiribati is a Micronesian language of the Austronesian group. I believe the precise affinities with other languages are unknown, but there is some degree of overlap with Samoan, a Polynesian language (as might be expected on historical grounds)". "Kiribati, (pronounced like kee-ree-bus, the native pronunciation of Gilberts) is a small island republic in the middle of the Pacific, with a population of about 70,000 Micronesians. It was formerly part of the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and became independent in 1979, when I was there doing linguistic research. Jonathan Willis-Richards has set up a beautiful Kiribati Home Page ..."
Myanmar. Burmese "is the first language of the majority of the approximately thirty-seven million inhabitants of Burma (Myanmar), and a lingua franca for many of the ethnic minorities that make up about a third of that number". -- International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (NY: OUP).
Northwest Solomonic (Austronesian). " The site contains language materials and links to other sites with materials on languages in the group. As well as smaller materials and links to other sites, the NWS site at present includes an extensive annotated bibliography of Northwest Solomonic; a reference grammar of Kokota; and dictionaries of four NWS languages (Kokota, Simbo, Torau and Uruava)."