Linguistics 

Great resources for ESL teachers and students.

A commercial site aimed at ESL teachers. Check out the Resource Centre for useful classroom materials.

Origins of English words.

Presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds, used to compare and analyze the accents of different native and non-native English speakers.

Captures the diversity of modern spoken English in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. From the British Library.

A catalog of the world's 6,700-plus languages, with data on numbers and locations of speakers.

Using data from the 2000 United States Census question about languages spoken in the home, this interactive map allows users to see locations and numbers of speakers of various languages or language groups used in the U.S.

A guide to the writing systems and languages of the world. Also contains tips on learning languages, language-related articles, useful phrases in many languages, multilingual texts, a multilingual book store and links to language-related resources.

A team of subject specialists from universities across the UK finds and reviews the very best web resources for study and research.

A topically organized list of resources from SIL International.

Provided by Orbis Latinus.

Links to monolingual, bilingual and multilingual dictionaries online, via the Linguist List website.

A comprehensive catalog of Internet resources related to language learning, education, and use.

Resources from the Digital Librarian.