Sound Recordings and Other Useful Links
General:
- IPA chart with sounds pronounced
- Sound recordings from various languages
- UNESCO’s List of Endangered languages
- Evolution of Scripts
- Language Museum
- The Lord’s Prayer in different languages
- The Virtual Linguistics Campus
- Some linguistic terminology explained
- World Loanword Database
Indo-European Languages:
- Indo-European languages (chart)
- Map of languages in Europe by linguistic groups
- Sound recordings from various Germanic languages/dialects
- German vowels
- Norwegian vowels
- Romance languages
- Uvular consonants in French
- French oral vowels
- French nasalized vowels
- Italian dialects (interactive map)
- The Nation, Nationalities, and Autonomous Regions in Spain
- Hindi Stops
- The stops of Sindhi
- Scottish Gaelic vowels
- Romani language project at Manchester
Non-Indo-European Languages of Europe and India:
- Length distinctions in Finnish consonants and vowels
- Palatal consonants in Hungarian
- A brief grammar of Euskara, the Basque language
- Consonants in Malayalam
Languages of the Caucasus:
- An overview of languages of the Caucasus by Johanna Nichols
- Genes and languages in the Caucasus
- Consonants in Ubykh
- Languages of the Northern Caucasus
- Aspiration in Armenian
- Ossetian sound recordings
- Ossetian language online
Languages of North Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia:
- Map collection for the Greater Middle East from the Gulf2000 Project
- Turkic languages
- Vowels in Turkish
- Babylonian and Assyrian recordings
- Balashon – Hebrew Language Detective
- Uvular, pharyngealized and glottal consonants in Hebrew
- Nationalism and language in Egypt
- Learn Hebrew Phrases with Audio
Languages of sub-Saharan Africa:
- Linguistic Geography and the Nuba Mountains
- Swahili @ UCLA Language Materials Project
- Some contrasting fricatives in Ewe
- Tones in Ibibio
- Doubly articulated consonants in Idoma
- Doubly articulated consonants in Yoruba
- Some contrasting stops in Owerri Igbo
- Consonants in Venda
- Clicks in Xhosa
- Clicks in Zulu
- !Xóõ click places of articulation
- Clicks in Nama
Languages of eastern Asia:
- Mandarin Chinese tones
- Cantonese tones
- Voiced and voiceless nasals in Burmese
- Thai tones
- Voicing and aspiration in Thai
Languages of the South Sea Islands:
Aboriginal Languages of Australia and Papua New Guinea:
Native Languages of the Americas:
- Hopi Indians
- NativeWeb Resources: Maps
- Dental, velar and uvular stops in Aleut
- Languages of the Greater North Pacific Region
- Lakhota ejectives
- Ejectives in Montana Salish
- A Map of Languages in the United States
- Ejectives in K’ekchi
- Some contrasting stops in Quechua
- South American Languages
Macro families:
Pidgins, Creoles and Other Mixed Languages:
For additional language maps, see Language Maps page.