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Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (ASEDA)
"ASEDA has materials including dictionaries, grammars, teaching materials, and represents about 300 languages."
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Bibliographic Databases in Linguistics
CL/MT Research Group, University of Essex

Bilingualism Database
"This database is intended for use by those interested or involved in the field of Bilingualism regardless of whether they are professionals, researchers, students or parents of bilingual children...The database can be accessed via this website, as can a number of webpages containing useful information on bilingualism. The database is drawn from resources reflecting the availability of research material from the US, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. We would like to add non-Western resources to this database as they become available to us."
The School of Education, The University Birmingham

Ethnologue, Web Version
"This electronic version of Ethnologue: Languages of the World presents the data used to prepare the printed volumes, along with links to the SIL Bibliography and the International Academic Bookstore."

Indigenous Language Institute
"...collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas."

  • Endangered Languages Database - (dead link)
    "This summary report includes one hundred and nine (109) language researchers reporting on 151 languages/dialects. Language researchers responded to our survey from Australia (3), Belize (1), Canada (8), China (1), Denmark (2), England (5), Germany (2), Hong Kong (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (5), Scotland (1), Spain (1), Venezuela (1), and the rest from the United States (75)."
    Linguistic Society of America / Committee on Endangered Languages & their Preservation.

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)
"...an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes."

Michigan Early Modern English Materials - (dead link)
"...compiled by Richard W. Bailey, Jay L. Robinson, James W. Downer, with Patricia V. Lehman. The Materials consist of citations collected for the modal verbs and certain other English words for the Early Modern English Dictionary. Many of the slips used in the work were the original Oxford English Dictionary slips, provided to the University of Michigan by the editors of the OED."

The Rosetta Project
"A growing collection of descriptions, texts, analytic materials and audio files for 1,000 languages...We offer this project to the larger linguistics community as an open source, peer review, global language archive effort and encourage text contributions and review comments from all language specialists - whether linguist, anthropologist, translator, or interested native speaker"

Speech Accent Archive
"This site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. Currently, we have obtained 287 speech samples."
By Steven Weinberger, George Mason University

Web Frequency Indexer
"This page allows you to create a frequency index, or 'word list', of a text. Paste or type in your text below, and select a sort order."
Software written and maintained by Catherine N. Ball, Dept. of Linguistics, Georgetown University.


 

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