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Middle Eastern Language resources: |
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Library of Congress
Romanization tables for several dozen languages and scripts, as Adobe
Acrobat (.pdf) files. Includes, among many others, Arabic,
Azerbaijani, Hebrew
and Yiddish, Kurdish, Mongolian,
Ottoman Turkish, Persian,
Pushto, Uighur
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The Language
Learning Center, at the University of Washington, provides a truly
vast selection of links, from resources to pedagogy to journals. |
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The UCLA Language Materials Project
Learning resources for less commonly taught languages of the world. Hundreds
of links (http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/wwwsites.htm)
for many languages and for language in general. |
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iLoveLanguages "Formerly
known as The Human-Languages Page, iLoveLanguages is the latest redesign
of The Human-Languages Page and the Languages catalog of the WWW Virtual
Library. iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related
Internet resources. ...more than 2000 links...[including] online language
lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services,
software, language schools". |
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The American Association of Teachers
of Arabic (AATA) "aims to facilitate communication and cooperation
between teachers of Arabic and to promote study, criticism, research and
instruction in the field of Arabic language pedagogy, Arabic linguistics
and Arabic literature." The site has a useful links page. |
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Lingualearn has
a page with links to Arabic grammar sites on the web. |
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Cornell University Library's Middle East and Islamic Studies Collection
site has a page of links
to dictionaries and encyclopedias. |
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The Columbia University Libraries Middle East Studies Internet Resources
page has links to more than a dozen different Languages
of the Middle East. |
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The Ethnologue, including
the Ethnologue Language Name Index and the Ethnologue Language Family
Index, is an enormous compendium of information about the languages of
the world. In book form it has around 1000 pages. |
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Babel Arabic learning
pages |
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Current Language Research
"For the more advanced and adventurous, here are some pages reflecting
current linguistic research as well as useful language-learning applications
that fall short of complete grammars (verb conjugators, etc.) This page
is currently maintained by Silvia Luraghi, Associate Professor of Linguistics,
Università di Pavia, Italy." Morphology analyzers for various languages,
verb tools, articles, unknown language identifiers, etc. |
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Yourdictionary.com:
Languages provides links to dictionaries and other resources for almost
300 languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish. |
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Yourdictionary.com:
Grammars "Here you will find grammars and language courses for over
100 languages on line, on CD ROM, and in books. Additional language resources
such as newspapers, on-line radio stations, and our dictionaries are linked
to each language." |
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The Xerox Arabic Morphological
Analyzer and Generator "accepts Modern Standard Arabic words and returns
morphological analyses and English glosses." Its translation isn't always
great, but it is very useful for finding roots and general definitions.
NOTE: If it returns an error instead of results, look in the address bar
at the top of your browser screen (on the error page). You will probably
see, somewhere near the beginning of the address, -1. Remove the -1 and
hit enter. This should load the page correctly. You will have to do this
every time. Not all browsers have this problem. It may be a browswer issue,
or may be a Java issue. |
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Online dictionaries, including
Arabic, Persian (Farsi) and Turkish. |
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Verbix "is an independent non-profit
organization that aims to promote and protect linguistic diversity. This
site contains verb conjugations for hundreds of languages, ranging from
national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages."
Software is avaiable for download--both freeware and shareware versions--or
there is a version for web use. No Arabic, Persian or Hebrew. |
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Yahoo country sites
have thousands of links. See for political, cultural, language, religion,
news, institutions, and more. |
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Online Turkish.com "Turkish Language Education for Beginner and Intermediate Levels. The site includes free listening exercises recorded by native speakers, grammar, online dictionary, pronunciation guide, vocabulary and Turkey related links." |
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