Welcome
This guide is intended to help you get started finding resources for researching languages, and linguistics.
Selected Web Resources
Free, internet-based resources
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EthnologueAn encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 7,000+ known living languages
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MLA Language MapBased on data collected in the 2000 census this site provides maps of languages spoken in the United States by county or zip code.
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Foreign Language for TravelersBasic phrases for travelers in 35 languages
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FSI Language CoursesFree language lessons developed by the Foreign Service Institute for over forty languages.
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Foreign Language VideosShort videos of native speakers of various languages discussing daily life in their countries, culture, and family. These do not have subtitles. Requires Quicktime Player.
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World Oral Literature ProjectPrimary and secondary source documents related to the scholarship of oral traditions worldwide.
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Center for Open Educational Resources and Language LearningLinks to resources for teaching a variety of languages and language assessment.
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LangMedia: Resources for World LanguagesTeaching and learning materials, and cultural information for many of the lesser studied languages.
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DW: Learn GermanGerman lessons from Deutsch Welle for all levels of learners.
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National Diet Library (Japan)English language page of Japan's national library.
Online databases
These databases require a BSU login.
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MLA International BibliographyReferences for articles from professional journals in modern languages and literatures. For 299 of these journal titles, full text is available.
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JSTORA full-image collection of retrospective issues from scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage includes mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, Asian studies, economics, history, literature, population studies, and sociology (from the Arts & Sciences I Collection)
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Academic OneFileFull-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Content also includes ebooks, images, and videos. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
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Academic Search PremierFull text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
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Credo ReferenceCredo Reference service features full-text, aggregated content from more than 260 reference titles from 55 publishers, with nearly three million entries covering every major subject. Content includes encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and subject-specific works. Additional key features include customizable, dynamic data tables; tens of thousands of images; audio pronunciation files; over 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features.
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Films on DemandSearchable database of digitized films. Click on "Humanities and Social Sciences" to see a list of films by language, on the bottom, right-side of the screen.
Reference Books
These books can be found in the Reference Department on the first floor of Maxwell Library.
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International encyclopedia of linguistics byCall Number: P29 .I58 2003
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The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics byCall Number: P143 .T727Publication Date: 2000
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A dictionary of linguistics & phonetics byCall Number: P29 .C65 2008
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Encyclopedia of Communication Theory by
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The linguistics encyclopedia byCall Number: P29 .L52 2002
Online dictionaries
These resources require a BSU login.
Subject Guide

Pamela Hayes-Bohanan
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