Linguistics Resources

Continuously updated linguists reference work featuring comprehensive descriptions of languages from around the world.

Linguistic and anthropology resource with chapters examining the world's major language isolates and language isolates by geographic regions.

Second edition compendium providing up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide cross-section of natural-language systems.

Third edition compendium providing up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide selection of natural language systems. Presents an even broader range of languages and language families, including new coverage of Australian aboriginal languages and expanded treatment of North American and African languages.

WALS Online is a database and atlas of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the subject).