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LNGN 332 Phonology

Getting Started with your Language

WALS - World Atlas of Language Structures
Large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Comprehensive work on the world's known living languages. Information on speaker population, countries and regions where particular languages are spoken, statistical summaries, maps & bibliographies

Glottolog
Comprehensive reference information for the world's languages, especially the lesser known languages.

Phoible
A searchable repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data, which have been extracted from source documents and tertiary databases.

Look up your language on one of the websites listed above and see what sources (often books) are listed.
Search the title in the library catalog on the Find Books page of this guide.

Look up your Language in one of these print or online books

Handbook of the International Phonetic Association by International Phonetic Association
Call Number: P227.I521999
Publication Date: 1999

Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Online)
Comprehensive coverage of different topics in Linguistics including Applied Linguistics, Languages of the World, Phonetics, Speech Technology, etc.

Worlds Major Languages by Bernard Comrie
Publication Date: 2009
Facts about the World's Languages by Jane Garry (Editor); Carl Rubino (Editor)
Publication Date: 2001

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Subjects: Linguistics

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