Linguistics 211: Languages of the World

Contents

• Syllabus
• Writing assignments
• Suggested readings
• Useful Web pages
• selected class notes
• Language Families
  
  
• First Midterm Review List updated 2/05/07
• Second Midterm Review List--Old World Languages updated 2/21/07
• Second Midterm Review List--New World Languages valid for 2007

• language maps

Selected class notes

Language families

Word order typology

Morphological typology

Semitic morphology (Arabic)

Grammar of English-based creoles

Language Maps

Languages of Europe

Languages of Europe (more colorful, but in German ...)

Indo-European languages: Note that there are two maps, Europe and then (below the Indo-European chart) Indo-Iranian

Uralic languages

Languages of Russia

• Matthew Dryer's language family maps

  Language Families in Europe

  Branches of Indo-European in Europe

  Language Families of South Asia

  Language Families of the Caucasus

  Language Families of the U.S.

  Language Families of California

  Language Families of the Pacific Northwest

  Language Families of Canada and Alaska

  
  

• Other maps from the Web

  Celtic Tribes A map of the identified Celtic tribes of pre-Roman Europe.

  Language Map of Ancient Italy
  

  Official Languages of India

  Major Languages of the Philippines
  

  Native American Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks

  Alaska Native Languages

  North Pacific Region Languages of Siberia and Alaska.

  Pre-Contact Culture Areas of North America

  First Nations Peoples of British Columbia From the B.C. Ministry of Education.

  California Indian Tribal Groups Shows languages, but not language families.

  The Plains Nations Linguistic Groups on the Plains

  Woodland/Algonquian Tribes Before 1500 Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples of the Northeast.
  

  Map of Languages in Amazonia