Linguistics

A pronunciation dictionary for the words of many different world languages.

Research that enhances our understanding of speech perception and production, reading, and human communication.

Covers all areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and also language acquisition and sociolinguistics.

Provides information on language and language analysis.

Explore and map language diversity in US. Data drawn from 2000 Census long form and 2005 American Community Survey.

Guide to the writing systems and languages of the world.

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

Maintained by George Mason University; presents a large number of audio file speech samples; valuable for comparing and analyzing the accents of non-English speakers.