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Links of Interest

SIL has published materials on only a fraction of all the world's languages. Browse the Country Indexes to find the languages in which you are interested, and follow the links to available publications. Here is a list of links to selected external resources related to countries and languages.

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• American Sign Language Browser
• Animated American Sign Language Dictionary
• A Web of Online Dictionaries and Grammars
• Electronic Texts, Dictionaries and Data
• European Centre for Minority Issues
• Free Online Language Courses
• iLoveLanguages formerly the Human-Languages Page
• Library of Congress: Country Studies
• LinguaGuide Language learning resources portal
• List of Dictionaries
• Native Web: Resources for indigenous cultures around the world
• Online Language Dictionaries and Translators
• Online language resources
• TerraLingua Language Endangerment, Survival, and Revitalization
• United Nations Population Information Network
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: INDIGENOUS STUDIES
• Yamada Language Guides

Area-specific resources:

• Americas
  • Latin American Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • Native American Language Resources on the Internet
  • Native Web / Canada: Resources for indigenous cultures around the world
  • Native Web / Central and South America: Resources for indigenous cultures around the world
  • For information on dictionaries and other learning aids for some of the languages of North America, see The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
• Africa
  • Africa Online
  • Africa: Languages and Software
  • Africa Research Central, A clearinghouse of African primary sources
  • Africa South of the Sahara
  • African Studies WWW (U. Penn))
  • The Electronic African Bookworm
  • Electronic Journal of Africana Bibligraphy
  • Native Web / Africa: Resources for indigenous cultures around the world
• Asia
  • Asiaco the Asia search engine
  • Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • Digital Himalaya Project
  • Digital South Asia Library
  • European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL), online resources related to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea
  • Middle Eastern Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • Native Web / Asia: Resources for indigenous cultures around the world
• Europe
  • Central Europe Online
  • European minority languages
  • Native Web / Europe and Russia: Resources for indigenous cultures around the world
  • Russian and East European Studies WWW Virtual Library
• Pacific
  • Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • Australian Indigenous Languages
  • Awabe: an electronic database and guide to the history, culture and language of the Aboriginal peoples of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of NSW
  • Native Web / Oceania: Resources for indigenous cultures around the world

Language coding and standards

• The official site of the ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee
• Registration authority for ISO 639-2 (three-letter codes)
• ISO 639-2 Alpha-3 codes (also includes the normative text of the standard)
• Changes to ISO 639-x codes
• RFC 1766: IETF protocol for language identifiers on the Internet
• Current set of tags registered per RFC1766

Other sites of interest

• Altavista translations
• Genealogy sites on the Internet
• More links to phrases in various languages
• Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 4,500 Languages
• Words and phrases in various languages