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An index of texts related to the study, including grammar and vocabulary, of languages.

General

• 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)

Ainu

• An Ainu–English–Japanese Dictionary, 1905 by Author:John Batchelor

Arabic

• A Treatise on the Permutations of Letters in the Arabic Language, by Author:Moluvee Roshun Ulee, translated by Robert Tytler in 1810

Australia

• Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia and also A descriptive vocabulary of the language of the aborigines, by George Fletcher Moore in 1884
• Index:Dawson - Australian aborigines (1900).djvu, by James Dawson in 1881
• Index:An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal.djvu, by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in 1892

Bengali

• Grammar of the Bengali Language, 1891, by John Beames (external scan)
• The History of the Bengali Language, 1920, by Bijay Chandra Majumdar

Bulgarian

• A short grammar of the Bulgarian Language, 1897, by William Richard Morfill[1]

Burmese

• Grammar of the Burmese Language, 1883 by Adoniram Judson
• Grammatical Notices of the Burmese Language, 1842 by Adoniram Judson

Czech

• A grammar of the Bohemian or Čech language (1899) by William Richard Morfill

Chinese

• 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

• 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

• 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
• A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, 1883 by Adele Marion Fielde

Chaozhou

• 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

• 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:
  • "Language and the English Civil Service" in Popular Science Monthly, 12 (December 1877)
  • "The Place of English in the Higher Education" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (November 1878)
• 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)

Esperanto

• The Spread of Esperanto, 1907 in the Review of Reviews for Australia
• The Esperanto Teacher, by Helen Fryer
• Dr. Esperanto's International Language, by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof

German

• An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, by Friedrich Kluge

Greek

• 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)

Hebrew

• Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, 1910

Irish

• A Dialect of Donegal, 1906 by E. C. Quiggin
• Graiméar na Gaedhilge, 1906 by the Christian Brothers

Latin

• A Latin Dictionary, 1879 by Charlton T. Lewis
• Latin for beginners, 1909 by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

Manchu

• A Manchu Grammar with Analysed Texts, 1892 by Paul Georg von Möllendorff

Native American

• "Sign-Language among the American Indians" in Littell's Living Age, 146 (1884), 1835 by Archibald Sayce
• International Journal of American Linguistics, 1917-present (periodical)

Abenaki

• New familiar Abenakis and English dialogues, the first ever published on the grammatical system (1884), by Joseph Laurent [2]
• A dictionary of the Abnaki language, in North America (1833), [3]

Aleut

• Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary, 1896 by Charles A. Lee [4]

Algonquian

• An Algonquin Syllabary, 1906 by William Jones

Cree

• A grammar of the Cree language; with which is combined an analysis of the Chippeway dialect (1844) [5]
• A grammar of the Cree language, as spoken by the Cree Indians of North America (1881) [6]
• A grammar of the Cree language (1913) [7]

Maliseet

see wikipedia article at Malecite-Passamaquoddy language

• Maliseet Vocabulary, 1899 by Author:Montague Chamberlain[8]

Mi'kmaq

• A first reading book in the Micmac language (1875), by Silas Tertius Rand [9]

Navajo

• The Navaho Language (1972) [10]
• An ethnologic dictionary of the Navaho language (c1910) [11]
• Dine bizad = Navaho, his language: a handbook for beginners in the study of the Navaho language (1910) [12]

Ojibwe

• Ojibway and English easy reader (1906) [13]
• Ojibwa texts (1917) [14]
• A theoretical and practical grammar of the Otchipwe language (1878) [15]

Pashto

• Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri Pashto, 1902 by Author:John Gordon Lorimer[16]

Persian

• A Grammar of the Persian Language, 1771

Romani

• English Gipsies and Their Language, 1874 by Author:Charles Godfrey Leland[17]
• The Dialect of the English Gypsies, 1875 by Author:Bath Charles Smart[18]

Sanskrit

• A History of Sanskrit Literature, 1900 by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
• Sanskrit Grammar, 1879 by William Dwight Whitney

Scottish Gaelic

• Scottish Gaelic Dialects, 1906–07 by Charles M. Robertson

Sierra Leone

• Specimens of Languages from Sierra Leone, 1916 by Author:Northcote Whitridge Thomas[19]

Syriac

• A short history of Syriac literature (1894) by William Wright (1830-1889) [20] and [21]

Ukranian

• Valuyev Circular, 1863 outlawing the Ukranian language

Volapük

• Hand-book of Volapük (1888) by Charles E. Sprague
• Dictionary of Volapük: Volapük-English, English-Volapük (1889) by Marshall William Wood [22]

Welsh

• A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, 1913 by John Morris Jones [23]

Yiddish

• The Aims of Yiddish Philology by Ber Borochov