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    Thursday, August 28, 2008
Languages

Looking for information on the origin of words?  Need a translation dictionary of the Hebrew language?  These and many other questions can be answered with the aid of the resources listed below.  If you have additional questions, ask the librarians.  They are ready to assist you in finding information you need.

General Background
Abbreviations Dictionary, Ref 423.1 D46a6
Acronyms & Initialisms Dictionary, Ref 423.1 G15a2
American Heritage Dictionary, Ref 423 A512m2
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Ref 403 C957ce
Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Ref 420 C957ca
Chickasaw: An Analytical Dictionary, Ref 497.5 M968c
Code Names Dictionary, Ref 423 R92c
Collins German Dictionary, Ref 433 C712te
Concise Oxford French Dictionary, Ref 443.21 C744fe2
Concise Dictionary of Foreign Expressions, Ref 422.4 P999c
Concise Scots Dictionary, Ref 491.6 C744ro
Dictionary of American Slang, Ref 427.09 W478d2
Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage: A Guide to Nondis, Ref 428 M193du
Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Ref 492.4321 D554cs
Dictionary of Word Origins, Ref 422 Sh55d2
Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts, Ref 428 E56esl
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Ref 403 E52as
Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe, Ref409.4 E56prc
English Dialect Dictionary, Ref 427 W95e
English-Old English, Old English-English Dictionary, Ref 429.3 J49e
Expository Dictionary of Bible Words, Ref 220.3 R516ew
Glossary of Linguistics Terminology, Ref 410.3 P37g
International Dictionary in 21 Languages, Ref 410 OUU94i
Joy of Signing, Ref 419 R555jo2
Juba to Jive: Dictionary of African-American Slang, Ref 427.973 J91mj
Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary, Ref 495.63 K33m4
Morrow Book of New Words, Ref 423 M192mo
New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Ref 220.2 S92ec
Nonsexist Word Finder, Ref 423 M193no
Oxford Companion to the English Language, Ref 420 O98tmc
Oxford Dictionary of Allusions, Ref 422.03 D333ox
Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, Ref 423 ON580
Oxford English Dictionary, Ref 423 M98o2
Oxford Latin Dictionary, Ref 473.21 O98gle
Oxford Russian Dictionary, Ref 491.7321 O98w3
Oxford Spanish Dictionary, Ref 463.21 O98ga2
Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language, Ref 423 W18r
Seven Language Dictionary, Ref 413 S497s
Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary, Ref 427 S491sg
Standard English-SerboCroatian, Ref 491.82321 B474sd
Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament, Ref 221.447 T391jni
Theological Lexicon of the New Testament, Ref 487.4 S754tnt
Vietnamese-English Dictionary, Ref 495.92232 N576v
Webster’s Italian Dictionary, Ref 453.21 L897wi

Locating the Languages Collection
400    Languages         
410    Linguistics         
420    English Language         
430    Germanic & Scandinavian Languages         
440    French         
450    Italian         
460    Spanish & Portuguese         
470    Latin         
480    Classical Greek         
490    Other Languages         

Government Documents
SI   Smithsonian Institute

Finding Materials on the Languages
1st floor, north Reference
1st floor, west Periodicals
1st floor annex Periodicals
2nd floor General Books
3rd floor General Books

Sources of Journal Articles
PRINT RESOURCES
America: History and Life
Education Index
Humanities Index
Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature
Social Sciences Index

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost)
Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
Article1st (FirstSearch)
ERIC (FirstSearch)
FactSearch (FirstSearch)
Kid’s Edition (InfoTrac)
MAS FullText Ultra (EbscoHost)
Middle Search Plus (EbscoHost)
MLA Bibliography (FirstSearch)
NewsFile Collection (NewsBank)
Newspaper Source (EbscoHost)

Primary Search (EbscoHost)
Professional Development Coll. (EbscoHost)
WorldCat (FirstSearch)

Internet Resources
EBSCOHost: Full text periodical database
NetLibrary: Full text e-book database
NewsBank: Full text newspaper database
First Search: Periodical and information indexes

ANCIENT SCRIPTS.COM
http://www.ancientscripts.com

ANIMATED ASL DICTIONARY
http://www.bconnex.net/~randys/

ASK A LINGUIST
http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/

BRAILLE ON THE INTERNET
http://www.nyise.org/braille.htm

CMU PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict/

CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR
http://cogsci.berkeley.edu

DIALECTOLOGY
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~heeringa/dialectology/dial.htm

EDUCATION WORLD-FOREIGN LANGUAGES CENTER
http://www.education-world.com/foreign_lang/

ENGLISH TO AMERICAN DICTIONARY
http://english2american.com

ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE ON LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/

ETHNOLOGUE
http://www.ethnologue.com

ETYMOLOGICALLY SPEAKING
http://www.westegg.com/etymology/

EVOLUTION OF ALPHABETS
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/alphapage.html

FOREIGN LANGUAGES FOR TRAVELERS
http://www.travlang.com/languages/

HANDSPEAK.COM
http://www.handspeak.com

HELPFUL SITES FOR STUDENTS
http://www.oberoi-net.com/language.html

ILOVELANGUAGE
http://www.ilovelanguages.com

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCES
http://www.virginia.edu/~asmedia/flitig.html

LANGUAGE ARTS FOR KIDS
http://kidslangarts.about.com/

LANGUAGE HUB
http://www.cetrodftt.com/translate.htm

LANGUAGES ON THE WEB
http://www.languages-on-the-web.com

LINGNET
http://www.lingnet.org

LINGUISTIC OLYMPICS
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/

LOGOPHILIA
http://www.logophilia.com/logophilia.html

MESOAMERICAN WRITING SYSTEMS
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/
humanorigins/writing.html#maya

METAPHOR PROJECT: ENGLISH TEACHER’S TOOL BAG
http://ntas-kl.sv.cc.va.us/svphilc/metcov.htm

NATIONAL APHASIA ASSOCIATION
http://www.aphasia.org

NONSENSICON
http://www.nonsensicon.com

PHONOLOGICAL ATLAS OF NORTH AMERICA
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/

PSEUDO DICTIONARY
http://www.pseudodictionary.com

RAP DICTIONARY
http://www.rapdict.org

SEMIOTICS OF THE WEB
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~codognet/web.html

SLANGSITE.COM
http://www.slangsite.com

SOUNDS OF THE WORLD’S ANIMALS
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/

STUDYING PHONETICS ON THE NET
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/
PhonResources/PhonResources.html

SYMBOLS.COM
http://www.symbols.com

TEACHING INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html

THE ALTERNATIVE DICTIONARIES: INTERNATIONAL SLANG
http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/

TRANSPARENT.COM-INTERNET LANGUAGE COMMUNITY
http://www.transparent.com

UNIVERSAL SURVEY OF LANGUAGES
http://www.teleport.com/~napoleon/

UNWORDS.COM
http://www.unwords.com

VIRTUAL CALL LIBRARY
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/CALL.html

VOCABULARY TRAINING EXERCISES
http://www.vokabel.com

WORD CENTRAL
http://www.wordcentral.com

WORD LAB
http://www.wordlab.com

WORD NET
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/