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:

• Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
• Length distinctions in Malay

Aboriginal Languages of Australia and Papua New Guinea:

• Dental and alveolarstops in Nunggubuyu
• Nasal consonants in Wangurri

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:

• Hausa ejectives and laryngealized consonants

Pidgins, Creoles and Other Mixed Languages:

• Mixed Jewish languages

For additional language maps, see Language Maps page.