Portal:Philology and linguistics
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An index of texts on linguistics, including linguistic theory, comparative grammar, and language acquisition. It also includes Indo-European philology. For individual languages, see the portals listed at Portal:Language and literature.
General[edit]
- Portal:Philological Society
- European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, 1992
- English Official Language Amendment, failed 2005 attempt to make English the official language of the United States
- Homer and Classical Philology, 1869 by Friedrich Nietzsche
- What is the use of phonetics?, 1910 by Otto Jespersen
- Articles from Popular Science Monthly:
- "Are Languages Institutions?" in Popular Science Monthly, 7 (June 1875)
- "Further Remarks on the Greek Question" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (October 1884)
- "An Infant's Progress in Language" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (September 1878)
- "Language and the Emotions" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (December 1878)
- "Lingual Development in Babyhood" in Popular Science Monthly, 9 (June 1876)
- "Reason Against Routine in the Study of Language II" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (February 1875)
- "Sham Admiration in Literature" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (May 1880)
American Sign Language[edit]
- The Sign Language: A Manual of Signs, 1918 by J. Schuyler Long
- "The Philology of the Sign-Language", 1921 by Elizabeth Peet
Arabic[edit]
- A Treatise on the Permutations of Letters in the Arabic Language, by Author:Moluvee Roshun Ulee, translated by Robert Tytler in 1810
Bulgarian[edit]
Chinese[edit]
- Chinese Without a Teacher, 1922 by Herbert Allen Giles
- Essays on the Chinese Language, 1889 by Thomas Watters
- A progressive course of colloquial Chinese, 1908 by Thomas Francis Wade
- Synoptical Studies in Chinese Character, 1874 by Herbert Allen Giles
Fuzhou[edit]
- The Chinese Language Spoken at Fuh Chau, 1856 by Moses Clark White
- Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect, 1929 by R. S. Maclay, C. C. Baldwin and Samuel H. Leger
- An English-Chinese Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect (transcription project), 1905 by T. B. Adam
Shantou[edit]
- English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular Or Spoken Language of Swatow (transcription project), 1883 by Rudolf Lechler, Samuel Wells Williams, William Duffus
- Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular (transcription project), 1886 by Lim Hiong Seng
- Dictionary of the Swatow dialect, 1883 by Adele Marion Fielde
Chaozhou[edit]
- A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect (transcription project), 1883 by Josiah Goddard
- First Lessons in the Tie-chiw Dialect (transcription project), 1841 by William Dean
English[edit]
- The American Language, 1919 by Henry Louis Mencken
- A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language
- A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 1926 by Henry Watson Fowler
- A Dictionary of Australian Words And Terms, 1924 by Author:Gilbert H. Lawson
- English as we speak it in Ireland, 1910 by Patrick Weston Joyce
- Essentials of English Grammar for the Use of Schools, 1877 by William Dwight Whitney
- The Evolution of English Lexicography, 1900 by James Augustus Henry Murray
- A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, 1888 by Sidney Oldall Addy
- The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
- The King's English, 1906 by Henry Watson Fowler
- Articles from Popular Science Monthly:
- A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue, 1712 by Jonathan Swift
- The Etymology of the Name 'Emu', from Essays on Early Ornithology and Kindred Subjects by James R. McClymont (1920)
Greek[edit]
- Portal:Greek language and literature
- Greek-English Lexicon
- The Vocabulary of Menander, by Donald Blythe Durham (1913)
- "On the Homeric Use of the word Ἥρως", The Philological Museum, vol. 2 (1833)
- "The Termination -κός, as used by Aristophanes for Comic Effect", American Journal of Philology, 31(4): 428–444. (1910)
- "The Suffix -μα in Aristophanes", American Journal of Philology 37(4): 459–465. (1916)
Latin[edit]
- A Latin Dictionary, 1879 by Charlton T. Lewis
- Latin for beginners, 1909 by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge
Pashto[edit]
Persian[edit]
Romani[edit]
- English Gipsies and Their Language, 1874 by Author:Charles Godfrey Leland[3]
- The Dialect of the English Gypsies, 1875 by Author:Bath Charles Smart[4]
Sanskrit[edit]
- A History of Sanskrit Literature, 1900 by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
- Sanskrit Grammar, 1879 by William Dwight Whitney
Sierra Leone[edit]
Ukranian[edit]
- Valuyev Circular, 1863 outlawing the Ukranian language