Databases
- Ethnologue: Languages of the WorldReference database profiling all of the world’s known living languages. See its guide to endangered languages (and the explanation of its Language Status codes).
- Glottolog"Comprehensive reference information for the world's languages," including a bibliographic index. See "GlottoScope" for endangered languages whose "descriptive status" is the reference ("long") grammar.
- Endangered Languages Project"Online resource for samples and research on endangered languages as well as a forum for advice and best practices for those working to strengthen linguistic diversity." Search its Catalogue of over 3,000 endangered languages.
Other titles
- The concise Oxford dictionary of linguisticsP.H. Matthews. [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2014
- A dictionary of linguistics and phoneticsDavid Crystal. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
- Encyclopedia of language & linguistics2nd ed. Brown, Keith, ed.-in-chief. 14 v. Amsterdam, London : Elsevier, 2006.
- Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries OnlineLexicon of the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European, including Latin, Greek, Slavic, Proto-Celtic, Old Frisian, Armenian, Hittite, Luvian, the Iranian verb and Proto-Nostratic.
- International Encyclopedia of LinguisticsIncludes 850 entries of articles on most areas of linguistics, including historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics.
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED)Most authoritative and comprehensive English language dictionary, especially helpful for providing dates and quotations for the earliest instance of each sense of a word. Includes information on the English language, its history, and the social, cultural, and political influences that have shaped the language through the centuries. Includes Historical Thesaurus.
Linguistics Librarian
David Jenkins
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