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.

Information on less-commonly taught languages.

A different world language is examined each week. Includes archives of past weeks.

Introduction to the major language families, including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic.

Extensive information and web links on 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.

Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples from the rarer languages.

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.

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.

The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language, dialect, and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families.

Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.

Maps of the various language families, with background reference material, based on Encyclopaedia Britannica material.

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.

Working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone, a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages.

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.

Attempt at showing a genetic relationship among four language groups not normally thought of as related.

List-servers for a wide variety of language studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien.

Online shop of teaching materials on various European languages (including some quite rare ones) plus Esperanto.

Typology of the world's languages from the Fu Jen Catholic University. In English and Chinese.

The Lord's Prayer in more than one thousand languages and dialects.

Linguistic maps of Europe, Africa, America and Oceania. Priority is given to endangered languages and minority linguistic people.

Promotes and funds minority languages throughout Europe.

Wordlists and indexed links about more than 150 languages, particularly the languages of Africa.