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Languages - Computing resources for specifics languages.

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Children's Dictionary [This link generated an error during the last automatic check]
Children's Dictionary in more than 100 languages. Search and add new words for free!
http://www.logos.it/bimbi/

2.

European minority languages
Scottish web site with numurous pointers to other pages on minority (or minoritized) languages.
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/saoghal/mion-chanain/en/

3.

Evolution of the alphabets
Part of the course material for "History of the Alphabets" taught by Prof. Robert Fradkin at University of Maryland. Contains animations of the character sets evolutions of the main alphabets.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/alphapage.html

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Free dictionaries Czechia
Czech version of the Freeware Dictionary Program with many updated dictionaries.
http://www.sweb.cz/ls78/freedict.htm

5.

ISO 15924 - Code for the Representation of Names of Scripts
This International Standard provides a code for the presentation of names of scripts. The codes were devised for use in terminology, lexicography, and linguistics, but they may be used for any application requiring the expression of scripts in coded form.
http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/

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Languages on the web
Thousands of language related links maintained by Crystal Jones and Robert Behar Casiraghi.
http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/

7.

Linguist List
Quite an impressive list of Linguistic resources from academic papers to software and event listing.
http://www.linguistlist.org

8.

Logos Live Dictionary
Free dictionnary covering more than 195 languages and including more than 9 millions words. New words can be added.
http://www.logos.it/new_dictionary/index_en.html

9.

Logos Online Free Translation Course
Every user of the Logos portal www.logos.it can now follow, entirely free of charge, an online course, Introduction to Translation, by going directly to its internet page Put together by Professor Bruno Osimo, who teaches translation at the Milan Higher Institute for Interpreters and Translators, the course consists of a series of structured teaching units which are steadily coming onstream and being made available to the public. Currently the courses are offered in no fewer than four languages: English, German, Italian and Spanish. In addition a course in literary translation is offered in English and Italian.
http://www.logos.it/translation_course/index_it.html

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Mercator Project
Information network of minority languages of the European Union. The Mercator Project is a group of thematic networks, with the European Commission acting as coordinator. It is concerned to increase knowledge of lesser-used languages and to foster contacts between the different communities where these languages are spoken.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/

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Ontopia's Script and Languages Pages
The site provides information about the scripts and languages with links to other sites with in-depth descriptions of each.
http://www.ontopia.net/i18n/index.jsp

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Qualam
This mailing list is dedicated to the writing systems of the world (Alphabets, syllabaries, logographs, ideographs, hieroglyphs...). It has a moderate traffic and the list archive is available on-line.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam

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Roman Alphabets
Presents the base alphabets used in over 80 roman based languages including common diacritical marks and ligatures.
http://www.sweb.cz/ls78/alphabets.htm

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Scripts of all of Asia
Eden Golshani started his site as an Indian scripts comparaison and learning tool but it has grown to include many more scripts.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9594/index.html

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Terralingua
Organization aimed at preserving linguistic and biological diversity.
http://www.terralingua.org/

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The International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode
Pages by John Wells dedicated to the use of the IPA symbols.
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm

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UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages
The book is classified by regions: Asia and Pacific, Africa, South America, Europe, Northeast Asia.
http://www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/index.html

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Alphabets & Diacritics
Images representing the various diacritics used in 50+ languages.
http://www.sweb.cz/ls78/diacritics.htm

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