Subject pages attached to craig:topic/language

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1.	Histopia Online Dictionaries Afrikaans Danish Dutch Finnish French Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Latin Norwegian Portuguese Russian Spanish Swahili Swedish URL: http://www.histopia.nl/onldict
2.	Call language resources Links to resources for about 75 languages. URL: http://call.lingnet.org/resource/language/language.htm
3.	Say Hello to the World Project [Internet Public Library] Learn how to say hello in over 25 world languages! Sponsored by the Internet Public Library, this site provides Real Audio sound files for each language, plus links to relevant language and country resources. URL: http://www.ipl.org/youth/hello/
4.	Awesome Library language page [Awesome Library] Links to many different language resources on the internet. URL: http://www.neat-schoolhouse.org/Classroom/English/Languages/Languages.html
5.	Translator' Site du Jour URL: http://home.ncia.com/~slarsson/sitejour.html
6.	Numbers in 10000 Languages Numbers from 1 to 10 in 10,000 languages URL: http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml
7.	Foreign Language News and Newspapers [MIT Library] URL: http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/flnews
8.	Zee Williams' Language Miniatures Mini-essays about human language in its endless kaleidoscope of aspects, such as the social, the mental, the historical, the structural. URL: http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/
9.	Language Materials Project Index Find learning resources for less commonly taught languages in the world. Of see the institutions where they are taught. URL: http://www.lmp.ucla.edu
10.	Albert's Top 200 Translation Links Translator Albert Rieger presents his favorites - a useful collection. URL: http://www.sirius.com/~arrieger/links.html
11.	All dictionaries - All languages Quite the collection of dictionaries, with search capabilities on the page and links to what looks like every language dictionary on the Web. URL: http://www.gallery.uunet.be/internetpress/diction.htm
12.	Sounds of the World's Animals Animals make much the same sounds around the world, but each language expresses them differently. URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html
13.	A Web of On-line Grammars This page maintains links with on-line grammars of as many languages as can be found on the Web. It includes all types of grammars: reference grammars, learning grammars, and historical grammars. URL: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/grammars.html
14.	¬Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in Many Languages URL: http://www.marskandiser.com/ChristmasLanguage.html
15.	Language codes List of +400 three letter language identification tags. ISO/FDIS 639-2, from the technical committee / subcommittee TC 37 / SC 2, URL: http://www.freeamp.org/id3/iso639-2.html
16.	Vocabulary.com At Vocabulary University, learning English vocabulary is a life-long adventure. This educational site offers word puzzle contests to help you increase your vocabulary. URL: http://www.vocabulary.com
17.	TravLang: Foreign Languages for Travelers TravLang's site contains language information for seventy languages including translation aids, learning aids, dictionaries, and links. Take a tour of the world and learn words from many countries! URL: http://www.travlang.com/languages
18.	Language-Learning.net International WHERE+HOW, longtime publisher of Guides to Language Centres, has launched an online successor, providing free access to "the most comprehensive language schools directory online." The heart of the site is the Language Course Finder, a database of over 6,000 schools in 80 countries teaching 70 languages. URL: http://www.language-learning.net
19.	International Collection of Tongue Twisters The world's largest collection of tongue twisters!...With 2003 entries in 87 languages... URL: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/index.htm
20.	International Phonetic Alphabet This list contains the principal sounds of standard British English (the pronunciation associated with southern England which is often called Received Pronunciation). URL: http://www.worldwidewords.org/pronguide.htm
21.	Translations of the campaign pages Translations of a website into many different languages. URL: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ablinks.html#translations
22.	Internet Picture Dictionary [flashcards] Picture Dictionary for English, German, Italian, French, and Spanish. Good for learning new foreign language words. URL: http://www.pdictionary.com/
23.	WannaLearn.com Good links to foreign language learning resources. About 30 languages. URL: http://www.wannalearn.com/Academic_Subjects/World_Languages/
24.	Language abbreviations codes Key to codes used in the language abbreviation field (\XXX) AAA GHOTUO AAB ARUM-CHESSU AAC URL: http://www.skepticfiles.org/faq/lngcodes.htm
25.	Language Links AltaVista Translation Service Anagram Server Encyclopaedia Britannica - main language entry Classification of Languages URL: http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/~ian/hotlist/personal/language.html
26.	Say Hello, Thank-you and Goodbye all over the world Afrikaans: Hallo Albanian: Mirëdita Arabic: Ahalan Armenian: Parev Asturian hola Azerbaijani: - Salam, Salam ælæyküm. Basque: Kaixo Bengali: Ei Je Bosnian: Zdravo Breton: Demat, salud dit Bulgarian: Zdravei/Zdrasti Catalan: Hola Chinese: Nihao URL: http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/1066/525hello.html
27.	Languages with more than 30,000,000 Speakers in 1993 Of the 40 languages listed, no less than 18 are spoken in India (including Pakistan and Bangladesh) or China. Of the remaining 22 languages, 9 are European in origin, 3 were in the ancient cultural sphere of influence of China (Japanese, Korean, & Vietnamese), 7 are in the cultural sphere of influence of Islâm (Arabic, Persian, Malay, Javanese, Turkish, Swahili, & Hausa -- not to mention Urdu, already counted in India), 2 were in the ancient cultural sphere of India (Burmese and Thai-Lao -- and as was Javanese before the advent of Islâm), and the remaining one, Tagalog, was culturally isolated, in the Philippines, until the arrival of the Spanish. The white spaces on the map below, mainly in Africa, simply mean that the local languages, like Tagalog, are not classified in the cultural spheres of India, China, Europe, or Islâm. URL: http://www.friesian.com/upan.htm
28.	NoSlang.com Internet Slang Dictionary Internet Slang Dictionary & Translator Confused by internet slang? Can't read a text message? Translate internet slang and acronyms. URL: http://www.noslang.com

29.	Babel: Arabic [first writing lesson] an illustrated, RealAudio-enhanced beginner course in the Arabic language roughly equvalent to the first three weeks of a university-level introductory course, covering useful beginning phrases, counting, writing Arabic, vocabulary, grammar and more URL: http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/index.htm
30.	Learn Arabic Learn the alphabet, gives example words for each letter. URL: http://www.horus.ics.org.eg/html/learn_arabic.html
31.	Arabic alphabet Gives latin equivalent for arabic letters when mouse moves over the letters. Clicking on a letter will animate the stroke order of the letter. Only gives the isolated shape of letters. URL: http://www.islamicart.com/main/calligraphy/catalog/alphabet.html
32.	Arabic Calligraphy Arabic calligraphy is a primary form of art for Islamic visual expression and creativity. URL: http://www.islamicart.com/main/calligraphy/
33.	Arabic-o-matic Java program which converts latin letters into arabic equivalents as you type them. URL: http://www.webpersonal.net/jordimastrullenque/arabe/arabizometro.en.html

34.	Larry's Aussie Slang and Phrase Dictionary she'll be Apples! everything will be okay Arse over tit or tip fall over get your Arse into gear someone is asking you to get moving Arse about face something is back to front Ankle biter young child URL: http://members.tripod.com/~thisthat/slang.html

35.	English-Belarusan Dictionary These short english-belarusian dictionaries have been written since May 1995. They can contain faults so I wait for every opinion and improvement's proposal. Ryhor Hajduk Hetyja karotkija anhielska-be³aruskija s³owniki pi¹ucca z trawnia 1995 hoda. U ich mo¾a byæ mnoha pamy³ak i dziela taho ja èakaju na ko¾nuju apiniju i prapazycyju papravak. Ryhor Hajduk URL: http://www.belarusguide.com/dictionaries/
36.	Introduction to Belarusian Grammar URL: http://www.belarusguide.com/dictionaries/grammar/index.html
37.	Cyrillic vs. Latin Belarusian Orthography Belarusian language can be written using both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. This short article describes how related are both styles of writing to each other. URL: http://www.belarusguide.com/dictionaries/grammar/cyr_vs_lat.html
38.	Belarusian Sounds / Bie³aruskija huki Sound for about 50 words in Belarussian. URL: http://www.belarusguide.com/dictionaries/sounds/

39.

Learning Catalan on the Internet [brief tutorial] These pages are meant to be a starting place for people who wish to learn Catalan on the Internet, or those searching for information about the Catalan language. They are primarily aimed at English-speaking people, but speakers of any language will be able to use some of the resources found here such as the Catalan verb tables. At present these pages are under construction and will be changing from time to time. URL: http://www.catalunya-lliure.com/curs/catala.html

40.

Esperanto/Catalan Word List A les primeries de la dècada dels 80's la Pedagogia Komisiono de Kataluna Esperanto-Asocio, a partir d'una llista de 2500 paraules del català bàsic de la Universitat Central, elaborà una llista de 8661 mots en esperanto que en total donaren 1609 arrels. URL: http://www.vvirtual.es/esperanto/vocabulari-eo.html

41.	ocrat.com Chinese-related web pages with a focus on Chinese language learning for English speakers. URL: http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/

42.	Jargon Scout Do you find yourself in meetings wondering what your coworkers mean when they say "reverse egosurfing" and "innocent by-sender"? Don't worry, you're not alone. Most of us can't seem to keep up with all the buzzwords out there. Thanks to Jargon Scout, you can finally decode what everyone's spouting off about. URL: http://www.tbtf.com/jargon-scout.html
43.	Dictionay of American Regional English Mappings of various American English dialects. URL: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html
44.	Voice of America pronunciation guide Pronunciation of mostly foreign names for use on VOA. URL: http://www.voa.gov/pronunciations/
45.	Basic Greek Elements that all English Speakers should know The 102 basic Greek elements every English speaker, writer, and reader should know for an adequate understanding of thousands of English words. URL: http://www.lexfiles.com/basic-grk-m-z.html
46.	World Wide Words -- Exploring the English Language Investigating international English from a British viewpoint. URL: http://www.worldwidewords.org/
47.	The Phrontistery noun, a thinking-place. List of unusual words in english, such as: kainotophobia fear of change; kaiserin wife of a kaiser; kakidrosis body odour; kakistocracy government by the worst; kakorrhaphiophobia fear of failure; kalamkari fabric coloured by repeated dyeing; kaleidophone instrument for demonstrating sound waves by lines of light; kalology study of beauty; kalon beauty that is more than skin deep; kalpis a water jar; kalyptra veil worn by Greek women; kame steep irregular ridge; kraken legendary sea monster URL: http://phrontistery.info/k.html
48.	Brown Corpus The Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-Day American English (or just Brown Corpus) was compiled in the 1960s by Henry Kucera and W. Nelson Francis at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island as a general corpus (text collection) in the field of corpus linguistics. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Corpus
49.	One syllable words from the Brown Corpus About 6100 one-syllable words (in English). URL: http://www.one-syllable-words.com/

50.	Old English Pages Links to resources for the study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/old_english.html
51.	Old English at the University of Virginia Old english links. URL: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/
52.	Modern English to Old English Vocabulary Dictionary of Modern English to Old English. URL: http://www.mun.ca/Ansaxdat/vocab/wordlist.html

53.	Spelling differences Comparison chart for spelling differences in Britain, Canada, and the United States. URL: http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm

54.	Multlingva Informcentro pri Esperanto Information about Esperanto in 57 languages. URL: http://www.esperanto.net/
55.	Plej Bone Spektebla per Cxiuj Rigardiloj [English] "Cxiuj homoj kiuj skribas 'Cxi pagxo estas plej bone spektebla per rigardilo X' en vebpagxo sxajne deziras ke ni revenu al la malbonaj malnovaj tagoj, antaux la vebo, kiam oni kutime ne povis legi tekston skribitan en alia komputilo, alia verkilo, aux alia reto." URL: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/anybrowser_eo.html
56.	A Brief Introduction to Esperanto Esperanto is an international language, designed to be everyone's "second tongue." It was developed over a century ago to provide a neutral and easily learned means of communication between people from different language groups. Since then it has been learned by millions around the world, and has developed a rich literature and culture. URL: http://www.lodestone.org/users/hoss/esperanto/intro.html
57.	Literaturo, en la reto, en Esperanto (Liturature on the web in Esperanto) Original and translated literature in Esperanto. URL: http://www.best.com/~donh/Esperanto/Literaturo/literaturo.html
58.	Gary's personal English-to-Esperanto dictionary abound v. abundi about prep. pri above prep. super absent adj. fora ; absence n. foresto absorb v. sorbi abundance n. abundo ; abundant adj. abunda accompanist n. akompanisto accompany v. akompani accordingly adv. tial across prep. trans act n. ago action n. ago accurate adj. g^usta URL: http://www.chonga.pe.kr/lifeinfo/esperanto/esperanto1.html
59.	Esperanto Viva Word List a {-a} * [1, 2, 3]: adjective ending ac^et+i * [2]: to buy ac^et`ebl`a * [10]: can be bought, literally: buyable. ad {-ad-}: Ending, as in movado. Not dealt with in this course. adres+o # [7]: address afabl+a: kind afabl`e * [7]: kindly afer+o * [8]: matter, affair ag^+o * [4]: age URL: http://www.mintex.demon.co.uk/espviva/angla/espang.htm
60.	Esperanto pronunciation A guide to the sounds of each letter. URL: http://www.coledavid.com/articles_html/esperanto_pronunci.html

61.	Free Esperanto Course This is a simple 10 lesson correspondence course, designed to introduce people to the fundamentals of the language. The course is moderated, in that a tutor can be assigned to you and will run you through it lesson by lesson. It could conceivably be completed in about two weeks and promises to leave you with a thorough enough understanding of the fundamentals so that you could read any esperanto text with enough time and a dictionary. URL: http://alumni.aitec.edu.au/~bwechner/Documents/Esperanto/fec.html
62.	Esperanto Viva An introductory course in the international language Esperanto, giving you an insight into the language and the language community. URL: http://www.mintex.demon.co.uk/espviva/angla/index.htm
63.	Esperanto Vocabulary 40 Flash cards of English/Esperanto. URL: http://www.quia.com/jfc/681.html

64.	Kreyol Creole French of Haiti. URL: http://www.kreyol.com/dictionary/numbers-dates.html

65.

ISO 639 Code: fur [FRL] Italy. 600,000 (1976 Stephens). Alternate names: FURLAN, FRIOULAN, FRIOULIAN, PRIULIAN, FRIULANO. Dialects: EAST CENTRAL FRIULIAN, WESTERN FRIULIAN, CARNICO. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Rhaetian. URL: http://hebron.sil.org/test/show_iso639.asp?code=fur

66.	LEO - English/German Dictionary Contains more than 180.000 entries! URL: http://dict.leo.org/
67.	German for Travelers At German For Travellers, we offer extensive FREE resources to help you learn German, and to plan your next trip. We have also added several online and distance German courses for those of you who learn better with an instructor or want to take your German to the next level. URL: http://www.germanfortravellers.com/

68.	Hawaiian Dictionary online This on-line dictionary contains close to 5,000 Hawaiian-English and English-Hawaiian words.We used Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert's dictionary as a reference for our dictionary on-line. URL: http://www.hisurf.com/hawaiian/dictionary.html

69.	Scripts of the Hebrew Language Ashuri, Cursive, Rashi, Printed, Ivri. URL: http://www.mezuzah.net/scripts.html
70.	Hebrew Alphabet: Basic Level There is another style used for handwriting, in much the same way that cursive is used for the Roman (English) alphabet. This modern script style is illustrated at right. URL: http://www.jewfaq.org/alephbet.htm

71.	Icelandic Language Learning Resources A growing collection of on-line language learning resources: authentic materials; language lessons; socio-cultural studies and language learning references; fonts and productivity tools. URL: http://call.lingnet.org/resource/language/icelr000.htm
72.	¬Runes and Pronunciation The Icelandic Alphabet, the Runic character equivalents of the Alphabet and the pronunciation of vowels in Icelandic. URL: http://www.nyherji.is/~gunnsi/folk/runes.htm

73.	Inuit fonts [zip file of fonts] ᖃᕆᓴᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᓐᓇᖅᑕᑎᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᕈᓐᓇᐅᑏᑦ ᑲᑎᖅᓱᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᓇᕿᓪᓗᒍ ᐊᑦᑕᑕᕈᑕᐅᔪᓐᓇᖅᑐᖅ, ᒫᓐᓇ ᑕᓪᓕᒪᓂᒃ ᐊᔾᔨᒋᙱᑦᑐᓂᒃ ᑎᑎᕋᕈᓐᓇᐅᑕᖃᖅᐳᖅ, ᑕᕐᓴᕈᖅᑎᓯᒪᔪᑦ, ᐅᕿᙱᑦᑐᑦ, ᓴᖑᐃᐱᓘᔭᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ, ᑕᕐᓴᐅᑦᑎᐊᙱᑦᑐᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᒐᔪᖕᓂᖅᐹᖏᑦ. URL: http://www.gov.nu.ca/english/font/

74.	Katakana characters Pictures of the Katakana characters and how to draw them. URL: http://members.aol.com/writejapan/katakana/writutor.htm
75.	Hiragana Tutor So you are new to Hiragana? Well I will try my best to help you! I think if you study 15-30 minutes a day for 2 or 3 weeks you can learn all of the Hiragana! URL: http://www.thejapanesepage.com/hiragana.htm
76.	1000 Kanji dictionary Japanese Kanji. URL: http://www.thejapanesepage.com/dictionaryframe.htm
77.	iKanji Searchable Kanji character dictionary. About 40 Kanji. URL: http://kanji.ucsd.edu/
78.	How to Write "Hira-gana" MOV files for writing hiragana characters. URL: http://www.city.kitakyushu.jp/hanao/english.html
79.	Learning the Kanji These kanji pages are based on Jim Breen's Kanjidic, the foundation of quite a number of kanji dictionary and training applications. For Kanjidics documentation please have a look at the Kanjidic documentation , for the license please refer to Kanjidic license . I would like to state, that using Hyperkanji is subject to the same terms of license. URL: http://www.8ung.at/aikikai-wien/kanji.htm
80.	A Database of Information on the 6,355 Kanji in the JIS X 0208 Standard The KANJIDIC file contains comprehensive information about Japanese kanji. It is a text file currently 6,355 lines long, with one line for each kanji in the two levels of the characters specified in the JIS X 0208-1990 set. (For information about this set, see Appendix A.) The file contains a mixture of ASCII characters and kana/kanji encoded using the EUC (Extended Unix Code) coding. URL: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic_doc.html
81.	Basic Kanji Lists of kanji. URL: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~FT5K-YMD/basick.html
82.	Japanese Webpage viewer Converts japanese characters in a webpage to images so that the page may be viewed on a browser with no Japanese fonts. URL: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/jviewer.html

83.	Korean Type 1 Fonts n3f-5 encodings of Hangul URL: http://cglab.snu.ac.kr/~yjlee/n3f/font/font.html
84.	Understanding the Korean Language [alphabet] [lesson 2] Nice introduction to the Korean language's alphabet. Buttons on the page can be pressed to listen to the sound of the characters. URL: http://www.koreanz.com/English/Korean365/
85.	Korean Tutor KoreanTutor's educational content has been contributed by Seoul National University¡¯s Korean Language Education Research Institute and has been modified for online studying. It is composed of 3 components (the Korean Alphabet, Sentence Patterns, and Level Study), providing systematic study programs ranging from low to high levels. URL: http://www.koreantutor.com/

86.	Histopia Latin Dictionary Converts from English to Latin, or Latin to English. URL: http://www.histopia.nl/onldict/lat.html

87.	A basic course in Bahasa Malaysia Also known as Bahasa Melayu (Malay language). Only Lessons 1 to 57 are available at the moment. Hopefully this basic course in Bahasa Malaysia will help intending visitors to Malaysia make the most of their stay there. URL: http://pgoh.free.fr/course.php3

88.	Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [fact sheet] [bibliography] REVISED AS OF 15 JUNE 1945 (DECLASSIFIED UNDER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DIRECTIVE 5200.9) URL: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-4.htm

89.	Polish Translator English-Polish dictionary and translator. URL: http://www.poltran.com/

90.	KOI8-R Instructions KOI8-R Font encoding for Cyrillic fonts. URL: http://www.eastview.com/pe/Electro/koi.htm
91.	The upper half of KOI8-R code table: 80h - FFh Webpage which lists the KOI8-R characters for Cyrillic, and a graphic image of the characters to check if they match. URL: http://koi8.pp.ru/font.html
92.	Reading and Writing Cyrillic in Netscape This page will help you set up your computer to read the Cyrillic alphabet which is used in writing and printing Russian. URL: http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/language/koi8.html

93.	Nota Bene SerboCroat Latin Encoding enumeratino for SerboCroat Latin text. URL: http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/csets/NBSC.TXT
94.	Serbo-Croatian Profile Alternate Names: Serbian, Croatian Number of Speakers: Approximately 20 million Key Dialects: Cakavian Kajkavian Stokavian: Geographical Center: Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia URL: http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/profiles/profs01.htm

95.	American Sign Language Browser This site lets you find a word and then watch someone perform the sign in American Sign Language. URL: http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
96.	American Sign Language Dictionary Online Learn to sign the alphabet and numbers in American Sign Language. This site also gives information about deaf culture and languages, and it offers some stories in sign language. URL: http://dww.deafworldweb.org/asl
97.	A Practical Sign Language Dictionary Online Approximately 3,090 signs.. and still growing daily. URL: http://www.handspeak.com/
98.	American Sign Language Picture Dictionary [book version] Sutton's American Sign Language Picture Dictionary. URL: http://www.signwriting.org/library/aslpict/aslpict.html

99.	Open Directory Spanish Dictionaries Open Directory list of links to Spanish dictionaries. URL: http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Dictionaries/Language/S/Spanish/
100.	Diccionario Anaya de la Lengua [¬Spanish/English] Con este diccionario, absolutamente actualizado, puedes consultar en tiempo real cualquier duda o ampliar tu información sobre la lengua española a través de 33.000 voces y otros 3.000 términos fácilmente deducibles. URL: http://www.anaya.es/diccionario/diccionar.htm
101.	Golden Age of Spanish Sonnets Created and maintained by Alix Ingber, Professor of Spanish at Sweet Briar College, this site hosts 107 Golden Age (Sixteenth Century) Spanish sonnets and English translations. URL: http://sonnets.spanish.sbc.edu/

102.	TravelNet: Swahili Links to books on Amazon.com dealing with the Swahili language. URL: http://www.exclusivetvlnet.com/bookstore/reference/swahili.htm

103.	Tamil language resources A growing collection of on-line language learning resources: authentic materials; language lessons; socio-cultural studies and language learning references; fonts and productivity tools. URL: http://call.lingnet.org/resource/language/tamlr000.htm

104.	L&H Online Translations Sample: English: A rolling stone gathers no moss. French: Une pierre roulante ne rassemble pas de mousse. English again: A rolling stone doesn't gather a moss. URL: http://officeupdate.lhsl.com/
105.	babelfish Sample: English: A rolling stone gathers no moss. French: Une pierre de roulement ne recueille aucune mousse. English: A stone of bearing does not collect any foam. URL: http://babelfish.altavista.com

106.

Nôm: Vernacular script of Vietname from 10th-20th centuries Nôm, is the "vernacular script." After Vietnamese independence from China in 939 CE, scholars began their creation of nôm, an ideographic script that represents Vietnamese speech. For the next 1000 years -- from the 10th century and into the 20th -- much of Vietnamese literature, philosophy, history, law, medicine, religion, and government policy was written in nôm. Indeed, during the 24 years of the Tây-SÆ¡n emperors (1788-1802), all administrative documents were written in nôm. In other words, approximately 1000 years of Vietnamese cultural heritage is recorded in this unique system. URL: http://www.nomfoundation.org/

107.	¬Welsh online URL: http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/rpg/ijo1/cymraeg

108.	Learn Yoruba Website for the promition and growth of the Yoruba language and culture world-wide. URL: http://www.learnyoruba.com/

109.	Ladysmith Black Mambazo--Learn Zulu Learn a bit of the Zulu language from South African musical group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. URL: http://www.mambazo.com/zulu.html