Language and Culture: Related Internet Sites

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Related Internet Sites

General linguistics links:

About Language (information about modern languages, including endangered ones; website maintained by Language Tutoring, an online reference site from Britain for learning languages)

Creole Languages (extensive listing by Ethnologue)

Ethnologue (the major online source of information about the 6,000+ languages spoken in the world today. This is a good starting point for learning about different languages.)

Language Families (extensive listing by Ethnologue)

Nearly Extinct Languages (extensive listing by Ethnologue)

Pidgin Languages (extensive listing by Ethnologue)

The Language Gulper (extensive information about 200 ancient and modern languages)

U.C.L.A. Phonetics Lab (index of world languages, map index of languages, Index of sounds with voice recordings of the sounds used in many different languages; University of California, Los Angeles)

Yahoo links to Endangered Languages

Language acquisition links:

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (University of Minnesota)

Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: the One-Parent-One-Language Approach (online guide for parents and teachers)

Masters in ESL (information for those who wish to teach English as a Second Language)

Paralanguage related links:

Edward Hall's Proxemics Theory (brief biography of Edward Hall by Nina Brown with a focus on his ideas about proxemics--Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences, U.C. Santa Barbara)

Cultural Differences in Non-verbal communication (Vermont Department of Health)

On Non-Verbal Communication and Its Influence in Communication Translation (introduction to non-verbal stumbling blocks to communication)

Linguistics journals:

Anthropological Linguistics (Indiana University)

International Journal of American Linguistics (University of Chicago)

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