Linguistics & Language, Writing Systems | Reference Information & Resources

Linguistics & Language | Information, Reference, & Online Resources

Ancient Scripts
Worldwide writing systems throughout history, phonetics, historical linguistics and other resources.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages sorted and organized.

Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan
Linguistics in history and anthropology

Scientific American | Language & Linguistics
All the latest developments in language and linguistics including in-depth reporting, articles, headlines, video, photos, and podcasts from Scientific American magazine

World Atlas of Language Structures
Extensive database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars).

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Writing Systems

Omniglot
A guide to writing systems, languages, alphabets, and more!

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
Online accessible archive representing the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.

Writing Systems - Definition | Ancient Scripts
Definition and description of writing systems and historical linguistics.

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