Languages: Websites

The Library of Congress Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. The recordings include speech samples, linguistic interviews, oral histories, conversations, and excerpts from public speeches. They were drawn from various archives, and from the private collections of fifty collectors, including linguists, dialectologists, and folklorists.

Private, nonprofit organization concerned with the teaching and learning of language, the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) conducts research, provides information, and promotes improvements in language education.

Have you ever puzzled over the pronunciation of a foreign word? Forvo, described as "the largest word pronunciation dictionary in the world," is here to help with audio playback clips of word pronunciations by native speakers in over 280 languages.

A language portal with containing over 280 language dictionaries, subject glossaries, and tons of wordlists and words and meanings.

By manipulating the reliable statistics gathered in the 2000 US Census, the creators of this site were able to extract language and linguistics data. An important utility for students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the US, the site provides color-coded maps of 33 language groups in the nation, by county or by ZIP code.

Intended to address the lack of an organized list of language-learning materials on the Internet and to make sure that people who are interested in learning a language can find information, products, and services.

Documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon Global English.

Standard directory of languages of the world, now available online at the Web site of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Dallas. This outstanding resource should be in the repertoire of all librarians serving programs in linguistics, anthropology, geography, or area studies. More than 6,700 living languages are described.

From About the site: "The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers."

A catalog and online archive of the indigenous languages of California, western North America, and the Americas