Directories & General Reference

• Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (1994), Electronic Index
  
   

• Ethnologue (12th Edition)
  
  

• Index of On-line dictionaries -- includes a number of (mostly short) on-line vocabularies of Native American languages.
  
   

• Internet Resources of Interest to Anthropologists
  
   

• Language Resources -- links to various sites on specific languages and on linguistic research projects, maintained by the editors of the LINGUIST list.
  
   

• Less Commonly Taught Languages
  
   

• Mexican cultures and languages -- website for children, dealing with indigenous Mexican cultures, including whole sections in indigenous languages like Nahuatl. Maintained by Centro de Investigacions y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS).
  
  

• Native American Resources (AIQ homepage)
  
   

• WEDA-The Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists
  
   

• Western Australian languages -- online version of Nicholas Thieberger, Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages South of the Kimberly Region (1993), an annotated bibliography and guide to the indigenous languages of a large part of Western Australia.
  
   

• Words in English from Amerindian Languages -- complied by Mark Rosenfelder from standard sources. Approximately 200 items, with language of origin identified.
  
   

• WWW Virtual Library: Linguistics
  
   

• Yahoo Human Languages and Linguistics Page
  
   

• Yamada Language Guides (University of Oregon)

Other Organizations

• American Dialect Society
  
  

• American Indian Library Association
  
  

• Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT)
   

• Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS)
   

• International Phonetic Association (IPA)
  
   

• Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
  
   

• Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity

Journals

• American Indian Quarterly
  
   

• Anthropological Linguistics
  
   

• Language
  
   

• Language in Society
  
   

• Linguistic Inquiry
  
   

• Linguistic Typology
  
   

• Linguistics
  
   

• The LINGUIST List
   

Language Acquisition

• Audio-Forum one of the largest publishers and distributors of self-instructional materials in the country. They currently have available 275 courses in 96 languages, including the following American Indian languages: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Kiowa, Lakota, Lenape, Mohawk, Navajo, Ojibwe, Passamaquoddy, Salish, and Tlingit.
  
  
  Publishers
  
   

• Centro Culture Abya-Yala-- publications on indigenous languages
   

• University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics
  
   

• Various Indian Peoples Publishing, Inc. -- materials on Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Lakhota, and some other languages.

Academic Departments and Programs

• University of Arizona

  • American Indian Studies
    

  • Linguistics
    

  • Joint Linguistics-Anthropology Program
     

• University of California-Berkeley (Linguistics)
  
   

• University of California-Davis
  

  • Native American Studies
     

• University of California-Los Angeles

  • Linguistics
    

  • American Indian Studies Center
    
     

• University of California-Santa Barbara (Linguistics)
  
  

• University of Chicago (Linguistics)
  
  

• University of Colorado, Boulder (Linguistics)
  
   

• Harvard University (Linguistics)
  
   

• Humboldt State University (Native American Studies)
  
   

• University of Iowa (Linguistics)
  
   

• University of Kansas (Linguistics)
  
   

• University of Manitoba (Linguistics)
  
   

• University of Montana (Linguistics)
  
  

• Montana State University (Center for Native American Studies)
   

• Memorial University of Newfoundland (Linguistics)
  
  

• University of New Mexico (Linguistics)

  • Native American Languages and Linguistics
     

• State University of New York at Buffalo (Linguistics)
  
  

• University of Oklahoma (Native American Studies)
  
   

• University of Oregon (Linguistics)
  
   

• University of Pennsylvania (Linguistics)
  
   

• University of Pittsburg (General Linguistics)
  
   

• Rice University (Linguistics)
  
   

• University of South Dakota (Institute of Native American Studies)
  
  
  

• University of Texas at Austin

  • Anthropology
    

  • Linguistics
    

  • University of Texas at Arlington (Linguistics)
     

• University of North Texas (Linguistics)
  
   

• University of Toronto (Linguistics)
  
   

• University of Wisconsin-Madison (Linguistics)
  

Research Centers/Collections/Archives

• American Indian Studies Center (UCLA)
  

• American Indian Studies Research Institute (Indiana U)
  

• American Philosophical Society- Manuscripts Guide
  

• Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana U)

• California Indian Library Collections
  

• Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians
  
   

• Center for the Study of the Native Languages of the Plains and Southwest, University of Colorado, Boulder (CeSNaLPS)
   

• Harrington Website (Bob Edberg) -- devoted to J. P. Harrington's notes
  
   

• Jesuit Oregon Province Archives extensive language holdings pertaining to northwestern US and Alaska 19 & 20th century
  
   

• Marquette University Archives Catholic Indian mission records, including 19th & 20th century material relating to Lakota (audio & textual language materials), Cheyenne (audio language materials only), Choctaw (textual language materials only), Ojibwa (textual language materials only), and about 35 other languages.
  
  
  

• Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project (UC-Davis)
  
  

• Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (U of Virginia)
  
  

• Native American Language Center (UC-Davis)
  
  

• PROEIB (Programa de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe para los Paeses Andinos) --indigenous intercultural bilingual education program in Cochabamba, Bolivia
  
   

• Project for the Documentation of the Languages of MesoAmerica (PDLMA) -- directed by Terry Kaufman and John Justeson. The site will post many of the materials produced by the project. A present two dictionaries are available (Mixe and Zoque), but eventually the site will include text collections, grammars and articles.
  
   

• Smithsonian Institution

  • Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) - Web link to Smithsonian library and archive catalogues, including the National Anthropological Archives

  • Dept. of Anthropology

  • Smithsonian Libraries, Anthropology Branch

   

• Survey of California & Other Indian Languages (UC-Berkeley)

  • Berkeley Language Center (tape collection)
     

• UC-Berkeley Libraries
  
   

• Yukon Native Language Centre-- research and educational materials on the languages of Yukon First Nations (Athabaskan, Tlingit).

Resources for Specific Languages

• Alaska Native Knowledge Network: Alaska Native Languages Page
  
  
  

• The Blackfoot Language-- from the Universal Survey of Languages, with bibliography and audio sample and pages on phonetics, morphology, morphosyntax, and syntax.
  
   

• California Athabaskan Home Page-- maintained by Bill Anderson; information and links on Hupa-Chilula, the Eel River group (Lassik, Nongatl, Sinkyone, Wailaki) and hte Cahto language/dialect.
  
  

• Cherokee
  

  • Raven's Tsalagi (Cherokee) Page - a list of sources for Cherokee language study; link to a large gif (200K) of the Cherokee syllabary.
    

  • Cherokees of California Homepage - organization of people of Cherokee heritage interested in preserving and passing on Cherokee traditions, history and language. Cherokee language lessons (by Richard Francis) are available at this site.
    

  • Oklahoma NativeVoices Project (Al Webster) - sound files of words in Cherokee, Wyandotte, Choctaw, and Apache.
    

  • Cherokee National Museum Books - books on Cherokee heritage, including language
     

• Cheyenne
  

  • Cheyenne Page (maintained by Wayne Leman) - Dictionary files, Cheyenne names, orthography issues, technical articles, etc.
    

  • Modern Cheyenne Pronunciation- Also known as The Oklahoma Cheyenne Page. Uses a different orthography than the Cheyenne Page listed above.
    
     

• Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee
  
   

• Cree
  

  • Cree Language Home Page NEHINAWE, Speak Cree (maintained by the Assembly of First Nations, Canada) -- language lessons, information on Cree syllabics, etc.
    

  • Cree Syllabics Page (maintained by Jerry Spence) - dedicated to the discussion, development and use of Syllabics.
    
    

• Delaware (Lenape)
  

  • Common Words and Phrases in Lenape [Delaware] Common Words and Phrases in Lenape [Delaware] part of the site maintained by Delaware (Lenape) Tribe of Indians
    
    
    

• Ecuadorian Languages
  

  • Vernacular Language Program (Guyaquil, Ecuador) - oral literature in Tsafiqui (Colorado) of Coastal Ecuador
    
     

• Hupa Language Page (maintained by Danny Ammon) -- bibliography; past and ongoing linguistic work; vocabulary and grammar
  
  

• Garifuna-- Garifuna Nation Language Policy, proposed orthography, archive of discussions on the decline of the Garifuna ("Black Carib") language.
  
   

• Inuktitut- The Language of the Inuit People-- maintained by students of the Leo Ussak School, Rankin Inlet, NWU (Nunavut)
  
   

• Klamath-Modoc Linguistics Page-- compiled by Scott Delancey; linguistic information and resources on the Klamath-Modoc language of Southern Oregon.
  
   

• The Mapuche Page (maintained by Jennifer Arnold) -- information about the Mapuche people of Chile/Argentina and their language.
  
   

• Mayan
  

  • Sna Jtz'ibajom/ The House of the Writer-- a cultural cooperative sponsoring a literacy program for Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya speakers.
    

  • Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project-- directed by Martha Macri, UC-Davis; the goal of the project is to put the entire corpus of Maya glyph texts into a graphics database.
    
     

• Michif sound files-- posted on the Creolist website in Sweden. Includes a few texts, a song and a number of elicited sentences.
  
  

• Mixe-- a dictionary of Oluta Mixean is posted at the PDLMA site
  
   

• Kanienkehaka [Mohawk] Language Homepage Mohawk vocabulary; lists of other linguistic resources for the study of Mohawk
  
   

• Nahuatl
  

  • Learning Nahuatl-- Guide to grammars, dictionaries, texts, current materials, courses, adn the NAHUATL-L discussion group; maintained by Victor Mendoza-Grado and Ricardo J. Salvador.
    
    

• Navajo
  

  • Navajo Community College, Navajo Language Program (Tsaile, AZ) - courses both for native speakers and for non-speakers
    

  • Navajo Language Samples designed and programmed by Greyhills Academy using Macro Media's Authorware for a fully interactive learning tool
    

  • The Navaho Language-- from the Universal Survey of Languages; has audio sample.
    
     

• Ojibwe
  

  • Ojibwe Language and Culture (maintained by Nancy Vogt) - short vocabulary lists; cultural information
    

  • Anishinaabe [Ojibwe] Language Resources (Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College, Cloquet, Minnesota) -- On-line Anishinaabe-English translator; vocabulary and other information
    

  
  

• Quechua
  

  • CyberQuechua-- maintained by SSILA member Serafin Coronel-Molina, with pages devoted to academics, literature and culture, translation work, bibliography of Quechua, linguistics, and news about Quechua.
    

  • Fun Facts to Know and Tell about Quechua- by Mark Rosenfelder. Basic facts on phonology, grammar, dialects, etc.
    

  • !Viva el Perú!-- Frequently updated list of sites on Peru and on Quechua, maintained by David Brantley
    
     

• Salishan
  

  • To join a discussion group for Salishan languages and cultures, including current events, contact the moderator, David Robertson: drobert@tincan.tincan.org
    
    
    

• Shoshoni
  

  • Shoshoni Language Homepage (Idaho State University) - sections include new words in Shoshoni (including computer terms like "homepage"), new writing in Shoshoni, language lessons, and a thesaurus and dictionary.
    
     

• Sioux (Dakota/Lakota)
  

  • Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin, The Lakota Information Home Page (Martin Broken Leg and Raymond Bucko, S.J.) - Information and resources on Lakota, Dakota and Nakota peoples.
    

  • Lakhota Online (Sioux Heritage website, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe) - vocabulary and language lessons, with audio
    

  • Lakota Language Home Page - A bibliographical source for the study of the languages of the Lakota and Dakota peoples.
    

  • Lakota Books - specialty publisher, offering a wide variety of books on Lakota culture and history, including a Lakota language series
    

  • Dakota Language (Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe) - information about Dakota, the language of the Eastern Council Fires of the Sioux.
    

  • Sioux (Dakota/Lakota)
    
    

• The Taino Language Project-- A project that endeavors to reconstruct the extinct Taino (Arawak) of the Caribbean. A Native American project of the Taino Inter-Tribal Council Inc.
  
  

• Wyandot Language vocabulary; multimedia files ("a sort of on-line multimedia Wyandot Sesame Steet")
   

• Yukon Languages
  

  • Yukon Native Language Centre-- research and educational materials on the languages of Yukon First Nations (Athabaskan, Tlingit)
    
     

• Zoque-- a dictionary of San Miguel Chimalpa Zoque is posted at the PDLMA site.
  

Concern for Endangered Languages

• Endangered-Languages-L (Mari Rhydwen) - central electronic archive for anyone working on, or interested in, the study and documentation of endangered languages
  
  

• Endangered Language Fund (ELF)-- small grants for work on endangered languages.
  

• The International Clearing House for Endangered Languages (Tasaku Tsunoda, U of Tokyo) - UNESCO Red Book On Endangered Languages and other resources
  
   

• Language Endangerment Seminar, University of Bristol
  
   

• Foundation for Endangered Languages (Nicholas Ostler) -- Online version of IATIKU, the newsletter published by FEL.
  
   

• Terralingua - A nonprofit international organization devoted to preserving the world's linguistic diversity and to investigating links between biological and cultural diversity
  
   

• Tapani Salminen's Homepage - Finnish scholar working on language endangerment issues
  
   

• Mark Fettes' Homepage - papers on Canadian aboriginal language policy (also Esperanto)