This database contains references to sources on more than 1500 languages. The sources mentioned may be an introductory article in a journal or a full-fledged grammar of the language. You can search it by language name(s), by classification (as given in the 13th edition of the Ethnologue1), or by geographical situation. The database was set up by the late Ludo Lejeune and has not been updated since 2004.
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Enter your search terms without diacritics, i.e. no accents, cedillas and the like. E.g. Piraha instead of Pirahã,
Provencal instead of Provençal. Except for the languages that are in the World Atlas of Linguistic Structures, the name used is in most cases the
name under which the language occurs in the 13th edition of the Ethnologue1. Variant names are taken into account in the search.
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Languages are classified according to the Ethnologue classification. For languages which are extinct and therefore not
in Ethnologue, the classification is given according to Ruhlen (1987)2. Failing this, the classification will be given according to
Voegelin & Voegelin (1977)3. These classifications are marked (Ruhlen) and (Voegelins) respectively following the classification.
These labels can then be used to filter out non-Ethnologue classifications from the database.
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The geographic situation has the form Continent (Country [(Region within the country), Country (Region within the country),
...))]). Australia, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea are treated as continents in their own right. America is divided into
North, Central and South America; they are searched for as America, North - America, Central and America, South respectively.
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- The following abbreviations for the sources are used:
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AfrLS |
African Language Studies |
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AIAS |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies |
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ANU |
Australian National University |
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AUU |
Afrika und Übersee |
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BLS |
Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society |
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BSELAF |
Bulletin de SELAF |
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BSOAS |
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
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CLS |
Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society |
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CUP |
Cambridge University Press |
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IJAL |
International Journal of American Linguistics |
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IFAN |
Institut français d'Afrique noire |
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JAfrL |
Journal of African Languages and linguistics |
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JAfrS |
Journal of the (Royal) African Society |
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JSAP |
Journal de l'Association des américanistes |
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KBA |
Kölner Beiträge zur Afrikanistik |
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LSA |
Linguistic Society of America |
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MIFAN |
Mémoires de l'IFAN |
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MSOS |
Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen |
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OUP |
Oxford University Press |
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PL |
Pacific Linguistics |
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SCOPIL |
Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics |
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SELAF |
Société des études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France |
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SILPL |
Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and related fields |
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SOAS |
School of Oriental and African Studies |
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UCB |
University of California at Berkeley |
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UCLA |
University of California at Los Angeles |
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UCPL |
University of California Publications in Linguistics |
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UCSC |
University of California at San Diego |
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UMI |
University Microfilms International |
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VKITLV |
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |
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WAfrL |
Journal of West African languages |
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ZFES |
Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen |
1 Grimes, Barbara F. 1996. Ethnologue. 13th edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL.
2 Ruhlen, Merritt. 1987. A guide to the world's languages. Volume 1: Classification. London: Edward Arnold.
3 Voegelin, C.F. & F.M. Voegelin. 1977. Classification and index of the world's languages. New York, Oxford & Amsterdam: Elsevier. |
