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[roninbodhisattva]

Resources of Wakashan Languages

Also, Van Eijk's "A Bibliography of Salish Linguistics" (it's awesome)

[cedh audmanh]

[Kicgan Vekei]

[TomHChappell]

Thanks.
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[Echobeats]

A database of suppletion in languages from all across the world, from the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey.

Also following TomHChappell's advice to post this here.
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[Viktor77]

What was that checklist for conlang grammar called, again?
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[TheGoatMan]

[Viktor77]

[HelixWitch]

Figured I could post some of my natlang-studying resources...

French and Misc Languages:
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=French
The entire site is for training some kind of diplomatic/military bunch of people, it's got loads of languages.

http://www.ielanguages.com/
This sites got a ton of stuff for Indo-European languages. The creator's second language it French, so it has the most.

http://french.about.com/
About.com is useful, although the layout/ads is/are annoying. I use it quite a bit.

http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary/englishfrench/
I also use this dictionary a lot. Has French-to-English and English-to-French.


Japanese:
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/
AJATT is amazing, but for some reason is stuck in mobile browsing mode at the moment. This site also links to lots of other stuff.

http://www.joyo96.org/
Is down atm, but this is a great help with kanji, if you can figure it out.

http://www.hiragana.jp/
This puts kanji reading above the kanji on whatever webpage you want.

http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/skills/kanji/strokeorder/
I don't actually use this (hah), but it provides stroke order for the kanji.

http://www.studyjapanese.org/
This is a nice learning site, but I use it most for the two search bars on the side of the page. It has stroke order for most kanji, and is dead useful.

http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
Rikaichan is a browser gadget that searches for whatever Japanese you mouse over and gives you the word meaning, kanji definition, pronunciation, all that jazz. Also dead useful. Have used it to near-successfully browse Japanese sites while knowing probably 0.00000001% of the language.

http://marimoeo.seesaa.net/
Marimo is a bunch of Japanese podcasts between three girls and some guests. Found this through AJATT. Their conversations don't sound forced or dumb or anything, and going with the AJATT method, are really nice background noise if you don't want to play Japanese music all the time.

http://www.kanjicafe.com/
I admit I have yet to actually utilize this site, but I've gotten linked here several times, so it must be alright.
Has a few tools for kanji/Japanese study.

Brazilian Portuguese:
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~huuhilo/portuguese/
http://www.sonia-portuguese.com/text/pronunciation.htm
http://www.learn-portuguese-now.com/
http://www.portugueselanguageguide.com/
Just in-general language learning sites.

Other
http://smart.fm/home
If you're not on smart.fm, you need to get there, now. USEFUL. IT IS SO USEFUL. Amazing for learning vocabulary, kanji, anything. It's mostly for learning other languages, but it's got things like Erudite English and Capitals of the World, etc.

[Neqitan]

The University of Iowa gets the spot in this post.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
Some information on the phonologies of GA English, German and Spanish.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/dialects/main.html
Some information on Spanish dialects. The project is not yet complete as for this post. When you click on "factores geográficos", remember to look at the tabs that appear at the top.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/spanish/IPA.pdf
PDF explaining the equivalencies between Hispanist notation and IPA regarding consonants.
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[roninbodhisattva]

The Kinkade Collection: the On-Line Archive of Papers for the International Conference on Salish (and Neighbo(u)ring) Languages

[Viktor77]

Any free grammars of Latvian? Can't find a one save Wiki.
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[Dampantingaya]

http://web.archive.org/web/20080102061853/http://www.ailab.lv/ai1/lgram-ww/lgrame.htm – you have to set your encoding to "Baltic" (Win-1257) though to see the special letters correctly.
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[Viktor77]

[sano]

http://radiotime.com/index.aspx

I found this url today while searching for some random lang info.

It is wonderful for listening to almost any natlang you want, either talk or music.

Just plug in the name of the lang you're interested in in the search bar and look for the stations that are currently listenable.

(works really well with firefox)
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Kala, my personal conlang.
uepa'o te sa'o

[Daquarious P. McFizzle]

I cannot, for the life of me, find a primer of Tocharian, either on dead trees or PDF. Help!
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[jmcd]

[Cornelius]

Resources For Writing A Grammar For Your Conlang::

Material based on Describing Morphosyntax by Thomas E. Payne:

Thomas E. Payne's website:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/index.htm

Outline for a balanced formal/functional Grammatical Description, by Tom Payne (PDF File):
http://www.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/HOGrammars.pdf

A grammatical description of English by Tom Payne, based on Describing Morphosyntax:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/engram.htm

Chapter outline and end of section questions of Describing Morphosyntax:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010620015420/http://members.nbci.com/pc451/Conlang/questions.html


Another, extremely detailed questionnaire used in language description, but probably not a good way to actually write out a grammar, is the Comrie & Smith 1977 Lingua Descriptive Studies Questionnaire (PDF File):
http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/~jrvalent/LIN427F2005web/attachments/LDSQOutline.pdf

(The Lingua Questionnaire may work for you, but if you are writing the Grammar for others to read, you may want to stick with Payne's method)