Linguistics

Resources in this category:

Anthropology in the News
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.htm

Links to free news stories published on the web, organized by broad topic (breaking news, archaeology, bioanthropology, social/cultural, lingustics).

Comp.Speech Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/

Frequently asked questions and answers from the Usenet group comp.speech, an unmoderated newsgroup for discussion of speech technology and speech science. It covers a wide range of issues from the application of speech technology, to research, to products and lots more. By its nature, speech technology is an inter-disciplinary field and the newsgroup reflects this. However, computer application is the basic theme of the group.

Ethnologue
http://www.ethnologue.com/

"The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries... including alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic data."

Evolution of Languages
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/index.html

"We don't ask ourselves where languages come from because they just seem to be there: French in France, English in England, Chinese in China, Japanese in Japan, and so forth. Yet if we go back only a few thousand years, none of these languages were spoken in their respective countries and indeed none of these languages existed anywhere in the world. Where did they all come from?"

The LINGUIST List
http://www.linguistlist.org/

Contains extensive information about on- and off-line linguistic resources, a searchable archive of the e-mail discussion list, plus Ask a Linguist, "designed to be a place where anyone interested in language or linguistics can ask a question and get the response of a professional."