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LING 211: Languages of the World (Daniels)

Reference Materials for Linguistics

Linguistics Reference Sources

Linguistics - Oxford bibliographies
Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics is a bibliography and reference tool that provides expert commentary to help students and scholars find, negotiate, and assess the large amount of information readily available to them in the field of Linguistics.

Annual Review of Linguistics
Literature reviews can also provide a useful overview of the research on a topic. While you can find literature reviews published in peer-reviewed journals, Annual Review of Linguistics focuses entirely on literature reviews in the field of Linguistics.

Language Reference Sources

Ethnologue: languages of the world
Reference database profiling all of the world’s known living languages.

Glottolog (Comprehensive reference information for the world's languages, especially the lesser known languages)
Glottolog aims to provide complete references on the world's languages (apart from national languages and a few dozen other major languages for which thousands of studies exist). At the moment, it contains 408600 references on 26285 varieties and families. (as of 10/12/2022)

Cultural Information Sources

Cultural information Handbooks and Encyclopedias

General

The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2019
The Handbook of Ethical Research with Ethnocultural Populations and Communities
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2005
Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures, and Contemporary Issues
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2015

Specific groups (a sample)

Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
Call Number: PJ6031 .E53 2006 (Knight Library General Collection)

Publication Date: 2005
Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2012
Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2011
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2019

Language Handbooks and Encyclopedias

General Language

Dictionary of Languages
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2006
The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World
Call Number: P107.A87 2003 (Knight Library - Map Atlas)

Publication Date: 2003
Atlas of the World's Languages
Call Number: G1046.E3 A8 2007 OVERSIZE X material (Knight Library - Map Atlas)

Publication Date: 2007
Compendium of the World's Languages
Call Number: P371 .C36 2000 (Knight Library General Collection)

Publication Date: 2004
The World Atlas of Language Structures
Call Number: G1046.E3 W6 2005 (Knight Library Reference)

Publication Date: 2005

Endangered Languages/Language Revitalization

The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2011
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Call Number: P40.5.L33 A841 2010 (Knight Library General Collection)

Publication Date: 2010
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages
Call Number: P40.5.E53 O94 2018 (Knight Library General Collection)

Publication Date: 2018

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