Resources for Natscripts and Natlangs
Post a link and a small description of what can be found at that link. http://www.btinternet.com/~c.fynn/tibetan/calligraphy/Tibetan-Calligraphy.html Tibetan Calligraphy: How to write the Tibetan dbu-can script. http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/The%20Mongolian%20Script.pdf A pdf containing a character map for the Mongolian traditional script. http://zhongwen.com/ Zhongwen.com contains the complete text of Amazon's (sometimes) best-selling and (frequently) best-reviewed : Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary using my character tree system. Distributed by Yale Univ. Press. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Palace/1757/scrittura/scritturaindice.htm http://www.kanjisite.com/ http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/med/ This is the Mayan Epigraphic Database Project. It is what it says it is, and it's pretty cool. http://www.ancientscripts.com/ More of a "fun" site, but it has a lot of basic (not in-depth) information on a lot of ancient scripts (though it seems to now contain several scripts that are still in use...). http://www.catnaps.org/islamic/glossary.html A glossary of the Arabic words used in these essays, the Arabic alphabet, a guide to transliteration and Arabic numbering http://www2t.biglobe.ne.jp/~BokerTov/semitic/alphabet.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic As we all know wikipedia can be a useful resource http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Arabic Wikimedia commons has a nice collection of links and articles about Arabic http://www.al-bab.com/arab/language/lang.htm A nice informative site http://cecilmarie.web.prw.net/arabworld/arabic/ A collection of useful resources such as words, phrases, some grammar and expressions in Arabic. http://lexicorient.com/babel/arabic/ One of my favs and a good resource for the script http://www.omniglot.com/writing/arabic.htm The Omniglot entry for Arabic http://www.funwitharabic.com/ The link says it all http://www.arabacademy.com/ An on-line collegiate style site http://www.alif-fes.com/ An info site about studying abroad in Morocco http://www.arabiclanguage.com/ More of an on-line store, but loads of good products http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/arabic.html Yamada links and resources for Arabic http://www.indiana.edu/~arabic/arabic_history.htm Background and info on Arabic I will add more as I come across them. http://acon.baykal.be/ A very nice verb conjugator. http://www.oweis.com/ Calligraphy, a few good links, and a few good tutorials. http://www.islamic-knowledge.com/Learning_Arabic/ loads of info, some in pdf, some in html http://transliteration.org/quran/home.htm Great site for -*test*-('")ing and improving skills essential to reading and writing Arabic, Qur'anic and MSA. http://humera.de/arabiska/?url=se0101 http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/arabic.php ktir helwa http://www.dprd-diy.go.id/quran/tasrif/kaa8.htm A detailed reduction of verbage from the Qur`an http://www.watanabesato.co.jp/jpculture/letters/namesk_.html http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/index.html http://www.kanjisymbol.net/ http://www.sakkal.com/CalligContents.html http://www.shergui.com/images/gif/alpha/ http://www.obib.de/Schriften/AlteSchriften/alte_schriften.php?Arabisch/Malayisch.html~Text http://www2t.biglobe.ne.jp/~BokerTov/semitic/arabic.htm http://users.skynet.be/hugocoolens/newurdu/newurdu.html http://efts.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/swahili/ http://www.usna.edu/LangStudy/GermanConjunctions.html http://www.timwerx.net/language/jpadj/lesson2.htm http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html http://www.crelearning.com/lang.htm http://www.yourdictionary.com/ http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html http://www.tigernt.com/dict.shtml http://www.pzlabs.com/aulenti/ http://www.indiana.edu/~iaunrc/radio.html http://www.yale.edu/swahili/ http://www.btinternet.com/~c.fynn/tibetan/calligraphy/Tibetan-Calligraphy.html http://noyeslodge.cornell.edu/medialib http://globegate.utm.edu/spanish/span.html http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar/english/sanskrit/sanscritoargentingles.html http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OOo_20_graphite http://www.viahistoria.com/SilverHorde/research/UighurScript.html http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter6/6aiarstream.html http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index/language.html http://chinesenow.net/cnword/default.aspx http://www.zein.se/patrick/chinen8p.html Austronesian Languages Basic Vocabulary Database http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/language.php?group=* Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language (North American) by Buckingham Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14419 Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language by Walter G. Ivens http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5762 Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary by Henry Sweet http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5424 New Latin Grammar by Charles E. Bennett http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15665 Extracto de la gramatica mutsun by Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta (in Catalan) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11081 Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Henry Borrow http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/648 Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by George Gibbs http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15672 The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16358 Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language by Borrow http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2733 Account of the Romansh Language by Esq. F. R. S. Joseph Planta http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10069 Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3206 Hawaiian Folk Tales - A Collection of Native Legends http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18450 Folk-Lore and Legends - Scotland http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17071 Philippine Folk-Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11028 Philippine Folk Tales http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12814 A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore by Fay-Cooper Cole http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7017 Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore by Fay-Cooper Cole http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12545 Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11938 The Edda, Volume 1 by Winifred Faraday The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13007 The Edda, Volume 2 by Winifred Faraday http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13008 Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15186 Folk Tales from the Russian http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12851 Many other titles free to view or download at Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/udhr/ Recordings of the universal declaration of human rights in various langs. http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/alpha1.html http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Index:Korean/Hanja http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Han_characters http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/steingass/ http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/far/hobbies/iran/alphabet.html http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/ipa_extensions http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/gnight.htm http://www.zein.se/patrick/chinsv3p.html http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/ http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html http://www.mechon-mamre.org/searchgh.htm http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/letters_table_caretpos2.htm < TF, that's for you http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/index.html http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/sta/dev/houston/syllables.html Maya Syllable Glyph Table http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Korean_letters http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/japanese/shape_k.html Katakana http://www.epochrypha.com/japanese/kana_tables.html Kana tables http://www.polykarbon.com/japan/language.htm http://www.recnet.com/japanese/table_k.html Teach Yourself Japanese http://www.manchaca.com/~sradowski/japanese/index.html an introduction to kana http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/sindhi/script/

http://www.encre-et-lumiere.com/ A site about various forms of calligraphy. (En français)

http://www.lsadc.org/ Linguistic Society of America http://www.mla.org/

http://www.theiling.de/schrift/ http://www.mishkan.com/ladinoalefbet.html http://www.orbilat.com/General_References/Alphabets/Hebrew/

Oh, wow: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List_of_Proto-Indo-European_roots

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LearnTajweed If you watch the videos while listening, it will greatly increase your ability to recognize the Arabic script and potentially read it with erase.