Search & Find
LRC 495A: Grant Writing for Indigenous Languages
- Establishing the language name(s)
- Finding Language Documentation
- Finding work done with the language
Before beginning your research, it is important to establish a few preliminary facts:
- What is the name of the language?
- What is the name of the family of languages to which the language belongs?
- Are there any alternative or variant names by which the language is described?
Places to look for language names and families:
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Ethnologue supplies information about the languages of the world including number of speakers, alternative names
for the language, locations where it is spoken including maps and related languages.
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Second Edition, covers the full range of topics in contemporary linguistics from fundamental linguistic disciplines such as phonetics, syntax, and morphology to applications in other disciplines such as anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, cognitive science, media, computer science, sociology, medicine, and the law.
Provides an encyclopedic summary of what is known of the prehistory, history and culture of Native Americans living north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico. 13 vols. of this projected 20 vol. set have been published.
E76.2 .H36 - Info Commons Reference and the Main Reference Collection.
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