Linguistic Reference

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Indo-European: Romance Languages Latin: Latin Grammar, Latin Dictionaries, Read in Latin Italian: Italian Grammar, Italian Dictionaries, Read in Italian French: French Grammar, French Dictionaries, Read in French Spanish: Spanish Grammar, Spanish Dictionaries, Read in Spanish Portuguese: Portuguese Grammar, Portuguese Dictionaries, Read in Portuguese Romanian: Romanian Grammar, Romanian Dictionaries, Read in Romanian Romantsch: Romantsch Grammar, Learn Romantsch, Read in Romantsch Catalan: Catalan Grammar, Learn Catalan, Read in Catalan Provençal: Provençal Grammar, Learn Provençal, Read in Provençal Galician: Galician Grammar, Learn Galician, Read in Galician Sardinian: Sardinian Grammar, Learn Sardinian, Read in Sardinian Sicilian: Sicilian Grammar, Learn Sicilian, Read in Sicilian
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Sino-Tibetan Chinese Languages and Dialects Academic reference covering 12 Chinese languages and over 2,500 dialect locations. You can search for tonal, phonological, grammatical, semantic, and syntactic data for each dialect where applicable and hear recordings. Integrated with Google maps, including Google Earth KMZ files, this is the most comprehensive coverage of the Sinitic languages and dialects in the world. Mandarin: Learn Mandarin Chinese This course currently has about 900 practice sentences for beginner-intermediate level. Read in Chinese Mandarin Dialects Wu: Free Wu and Shanghainese Dictionary, Read in Wu Wu Dialects Min: Learn Taiwanese Taiwanese here refers to the dialect of Southern Min (Chinese: 閩南語, Mandarin: Mǐnnán-yǔ, Taiwanese: Bânlâmgú). There are currently about 10 lessons and almost 500 recordings covering simple conversation basics including greetings, how to address people and family, language ability, how to count, tell time, and dates. Read in Minnan, Read in Mindong Min Dialects Yue: (Cantonese) Read in Cantonese Yue Dialects Hakka: Read in Hakka Hakka Dialects Jin: Jin Dialects Xiang: Xiang Dialects Gan: Gan Dialects Hui: Hui Dialects Pinghua: Pinghua Dialects Tuhua: Tuhua Dialects Classical Chinese: Read in Classical Chinese Tibetan: Yi: Naxi: Tangut: Burmese:
Sino-Xenic Chinese Character Readings Tracing the phonological changes in Chinese characters from Chinese into Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese (under construction). Korean: Korean Romanization Chart This chart provides several romanizations that have been used in Korea, including spellings for morphophonological changes in the new system. IPA is also provided in the chart as reference. Read in Korean, Japanese: Read in Japanese Vietnamese: Vietnamese: Từ-Điện Chữ Nôm-Quốc Ngữ Vietnamese readings of Chữ Nôm characters. Approximately 6500 characters compiled. Read in Vietnamese Vietnamese: Từ-Điện Hán-Việt Vietnamese readings for Chinese characters (under construction).
Uralic Finnish: Finnish Grammar, Learn Finnish, Read in Finnish Estonian: Estonian Grammar, Learn Estonian, Read in Estonian Hungarian: Hungarian Grammar, Learn Hungarian, Read in Hungarian
Altaic Turkish: Turkish Grammar, Dictionaries , Learn Turkish, Read in Turkish Azeri (Azerbaijani): Azeri Grammar, Learn Azeri, Read in Azeri Turkmen: Turkmen Grammar, Learn Turkmen, Read in Turkmen Uzbek: Uzbek Grammar, Learn Uzbek, Read in Uzbek Chuvash: Chuvash Grammar, Learn Chuvash, Read in Chuvash Tatar: Tatar Grammar, Learn Tatar, Read in Tatar Kyrgyz: Kyrgyz Grammar, Learn Kyrgyz, Read in Kyrgyz Kazakh: Kazakh Grammar, Learn Kazakh, Read in Kazakh Uyghur: Uyghur Grammar, Learn Uyghur, Read in Uyghur Mongolian: Mongolian Grammar, Learn Mongolian, Read in Mongol
Austronesian Malay: Malay Grammar, Learn Malay, Read in Malay Indonesian: Indonesian Grammar, Learn Indonesian, Read in Indonesian Javanese: Javanese Grammar, Learn Javanese, Read in Javanese Tagalog: Tagalog Grammar, Learn Tagalog, Read in Tagalog Cebuano: Cebuano Grammar, Learn Cebuano, Read in Cebuano
Dravidian Kannada: Kannada Grammar, Learn Kannada, Read in Kannada Malayalam: Malayalam Grammar, Learn Malayalam, Read in Malayalam Tamil: Tamil Grammar, Learn Tamil, Read in Tamil Telugu: Telugu Grammar, Learn Telugu, Read in Telugu
Semitic Amharic: Amharic Grammar, Learn Amharic, Read in Amharic Arabic: Arabic Grammar, Learn Arabic, Read in Arabic Hebrew: Hebrew Grammar, Learn Hebrew, Read in Hebrew
Niger-Congo Swahili: Swahili Grammar, Learn Swahili, Read in Swahili Xhosa: Xhosa Grammar, Learn Xhosa, Read in Xhosa Yoruba: Yoruba Grammar, Learn Yoruba, Read in Yoruba Zulu: Zulu Grammar, Learn Zulu, Read in Zulu	Future Releases Language Difficulty Rating