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Old Norse Lessons - A beginner's course in Old Norse. Has a few introductory lessons

Omniglot - An extensive database of the world's writing systems, including alphabets, abjads, syllabaries and other types of system. Readers may also submit their own alphabets.

On-Line Sound Changer - An on-line, FREE, adaptation of Mark Rosenfelder's Sound Change Applier. Now, you can get all the functionality of the Sound Change Applier without worrying about compatibility issues, or being a programmer. Enjoy!

Online Swadesh List Resource - For those conlangers whose websites showcase multiple languages (especially related languages), this pre-made table for the Swadesh List is a perfect way to compare them. The table (which I found on a site on Wiktionary.org) is pre-linked, so that, if you desired, a visitor to your site could click on a word in any language and be taken to a page where they could see its exact definition and usage. If you prefer to just show the list (which is what I'm in the process of doing right now on my site), then all you have to do is delete the links, and you still have a pre-made table with the entire Swadesh list. Very handy, IMHO.

On-Line Word Generator - An online adaptation of Chris Pound's language confluxer. And, it's free, too. Now, with more language source files to choose from, including Italian, Japanese, Egyptian, and Polish! Recently improved to eliminate duplicate generated words. (Also, for a version of the generator that lets you use your own input data, try https://www.fantasist.net/wordgen2.shtml). Now includes Melnibonean!

On-Line Word Maker - Modeled after Langmaker, this is a web-based word maker that lets the user specify their own phonology and morphology in the form of syllable formulas. No harder to use than Langmaker, though somewhat more limited, and cross-platform, thanks to the web. Also, has an older brother that lets the user specify words to translate into their new conlang. "This is by far one of the best language makers. It is like a small, web-based version of LangMaker. You input phonology and words you want translated (up to 200) and click generate." -- Aaron Morse

OnlyOneNativeSpeaker - OnlyOneNativeSpeaker the collaborative Babylon bonanza

Languages, by cultural definition, seek standardisation and mass-adoption; the command of language is one axis on which the ability to participate in all what society has to offer revolves around. It's to this domain of human culture that OnlyOneNativeSpeaker seeks to add parallelism, diversity and heterogeneity. It will do this by creating thousands of new artificial languages. Languages with deliberately just that: Only One Native Speaker.

A language is a collaborative effort to conceptualise place and time. At the most fundamental level languages reflect the environment of, and the social agreements between, the community it belongs to. The study of languages from other cultures is of direct important to us, as it shows us the boundaries of our own culture, and refutes claims of cultural universality.

OnlyOneNativeSpeaker excludes no possible line of enquiry. Every artificial language, independent of medium, origin and intent helps to display the horizon of possibility, in ourselves as well as in others. But creating a language from scratch is not the only option, finding languages where nobody did before: in crowds, in amoeba, or in the shape of rocks, is of equal interest to the scope of OnlyOneNativeSpeaker.

How can you participate in the Babylon bonanza that is called OnlyOneNativeSpeaker? That's simple, develop a language! While doing that, send us an e-mail with a link to the website containing the purpose and details of your language. If necessary we can host this information for you. At the same time OnlyOneNativeSpeaker will try to facilitate the exchange of ideas between all people involved as far as language permits.

Onomatopoeia Across Languages - The sound of a rooster and of a cat in many different languages of the world.

OPTED: Online Plain Text English Dictionary - Ralph Sutherland writes, "OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. This version has been extensively stripped down and set out as one definition per line. All the Gutenburg EText tags and formatting have been removed by computer... The dictionary is set as a word list with definitions, using minimal HTML markup. The only tags used are <P>, <B> and <I> and these serve to delimit the words (between <B>s) the part of speech or type (between <I>s) and the definitions (The rest of the line). Each entry is between a <P>, </P> pair. This will facilitate computer processing... The origin of the content should also be acknowledged, including OPTED, Project Gutenburg and the 1913 edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. If the material is to be included in commercial products, Project Gutenburg should be contacted first. There are no restrictions for personal or research uses of this material."

Our Conlangs - [Didn't exist last time I tried it on April 18 2005] Our Conlangs is a webpage providing links to the online grammars of everyone of the ZBB Zompist Bboard. It also gives the names of members' conworlds.

Conlang Profiles at Langmaker.com CC-BY 4.0: 1996 — 2022 .

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