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A Beginner's Guide to Cantonese Grammar
A structured set of lessons on Cantonese grammar for beginners, written by Jason Tang, explaining how sentences work in…
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
The strange story of ghost characters in Japan's JIS X 0208 encoding: phantom kanji that were never real words yet haunt…
A Taxonomy of Swears
Interactive taxonomy of profanity from around the world, sortable by subject and rudeness, where you can explore how dif…
About World Languages
An overview site profiling the history, grammar, and speaker distribution of dozens of the world's major and minor langu…
AccentGuessr
A geography-style guessing game for accents: listen to real people speaking English and guess where in the world they co…
Ace Linguist
A blog about linguistics and pop culture, explaining how language works through everyday examples from entertainment and…
All Things Linguistic
A daily linguistics blog by Gretchen McCulloch collecting memes, charts, and accessible scientific articles about how la…
Ancient Scripts
A reference guide to the world's ancient and historical writing systems, from cuneiform and hieroglyphs to lesser-known…
And Read All Over
A blog about language and linguistics by Joe McVeigh, with accessible posts about words, usage, grammar, and how languag…
Anglish
A wiki about Anglish, a form of English that swaps borrowed Latin and French words for native Germanic ones, with word l…
Arnold Zwicky's Blog
A prolific linguist's personal blog mixing syntax analysis, usage commentary, and playful notes on English grammar and v…
ASL-LEX
A searchable lexical database of American Sign Language signs with videos and linguistic properties, built by sign langu…
Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
An online atlas presenting the grammar, vocabulary, and audio samples of 76 pidgin and creole languages spoken around th…
Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
A blog tracing the origins of Hebrew words and phrases and how they connect to English and other languages, written as a…
Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag
A playful essay on Denglisch and Berlinglish, the pseudo-English words Germans invent, and what these borrowed and bent…
Beautiful in English
A data visualization by Visual Cinnamon and Google News Lab showing the words people most often translate into English f…
Compare Languages
An online calculator that measures the genetic proximity between any two of more than 170 languages, giving a distance s…
DCHP-3: Dictionary of Canadianisms
A scholarly dictionary of words born in Canada, from regional slang to historical terms, with entry histories, frequency…
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Deciphering Beanish
A collaborative project trying to crack Beanish, a private script a woman invented and used for decades of personal writ…
DubstepKazoo's Dumping Ground
A rambling personal site with pages on constructed languages like Esperanto, Occidental and Globasa, English spelling re…
Eberban
The home of Eberban, a logical constructed language designed to be simple, expressive, and regular, with its grammar and…
Endangered Languages Project
A collaborative online catalogue of over 3,000 endangered languages with samples, maps, and resources for communities an…
English Accents Map
An interactive map of videos showing how native speakers around the world pronounce English, so you can compare regional…
English Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs
A giant list of more than 300 English words that sound or look alike, with Richard Lederer's playful essay on the awful…
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