Useful Resources for researching Majority and Minority Languages

 

Ethnologue, "an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages"

Eurolang, "a specialist niche news agency covering topics related to lesser-used languages, linguistic diversity and national minorities within the European Union"

Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia"

The Endangered Language Fund

The Foundation for Endangered Languages

CIA World Fact Book, a fantastic resource on countries of the world

The Heritage Language Journal

Worlds of Difference, a radio documentary project on endangered languages

Narody Rossii (Nations of Russia -- this site is in Russian)

Minority languages in Russia (parts of this site are in Russian)

Languages on the Web, a site with thousands of language-related links

Center for Applied Linguistics Database

UNC Library resources

Indo-European Languages Chart

Census map of the distribution of languages in the US

European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages

European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Languages of the European Union

Map of US dialects

Map of Autonomous Areas in Russia

Map of Italian Dialects

Do US Attitudes toward Languages need a tune-up?

K. David Harrison's site on Siberian languages

Vermont Mountain Speech (link supplied by Daniel Tifft)

Information on Basque:
Basque Cultural Studies LGU
Basque government official page
North American Basque Organization (NABO)
Buber's page (Blas Uberuaga)
English edition of the only newspaper written solely in Basque, recently banned by the Spanish government
EuskoNews and Media (Basque)
American Basques at the University of Nevada, Reno
Basque computational linguistics resources

Two articles by Aija Priedite concerning Russians in Latvia: Article 1 and Article 2

Charles Kurzman's article on Uzbekistan

Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Research (relates to Australian indigenous languages and peoples).

Project Gutenberg, with free books in many languages