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The Rosetta Project
An archive aiming to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages, preserving texts and linguistic dat…
The Snowclones Database
A collection of snowclones, the reusable phrase templates like X is the new Y or X considered harmful, each with its ori…
The strangest letter of the alphabet
A history of yogh, the medieval English letter that vanished from the alphabet, tracing how scribes, printers and sound…
Toaq
The home of Toaq, a constructed language designed around logic, with a learning wiki and resources for picking up its gr…
toPhonetics
A converter that turns any English text into International Phonetic Alphabet transcription, handy for checking how words…
Translation Journal
An online archive of articles by professional translators discussing the craft, theory, and practical challenges of lite…
Try and
A Yale linguistics project page explaining the 'try and' construction (as in 'try and fix it'), how it differs from 'try…
UK Linguistics Olympiad
The home of an annual competition where school-aged solvers puzzle out the structure of real, often obscure languages, w…
Whatlang
A guessing game that shows street signs, store names, and random inscriptions and asks you to identify which language th…
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
A well-known essay by David Moser on why learning Chinese is so difficult for English speakers, covering the characters,…
Why Modern Chinese is Just English with Hanzi
An essay on how modern Chinese grammar and vocabulary were reshaped by European languages in the 20th century, with exam…
World Atlas of Language Structures
An interactive online atlas mapping structural properties of over 2,600 languages, letting users compare grammar feature…
Writing Arabic in English
An essay on building a phonetic Arabic keyboard that lets you type Arabic with English keys by sound, using capitals for…
Zompist
Home of the widely read Language Construction Kit, a guide teaching hobbyists how to invent grammatically plausible cons…
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