The Kittiwake Trust

Multilingual Library

Links about Language

 

languages of the world*

https://www.ethnologue.com/

https://www.omniglot.com/

https://www.sil.org/

https://glottolog.org/about

 

* please be aware that some of these  may be out of date when it comes to the number of languages in the world. A language dies every fortnight but more languages are being discovered all the time. Ethnologue's estimate for the number of languages in the world is currently

7,168 

 

https://www.hlenet.org/fohlc-europe

 

 

Indigenous Languages

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library/services/indigenous-services/rediscovering-indigenous-languages-project

https://www.commonground.org.au/learn/indigenous-languages-avoiding-a-silent-future

https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/living-languages

https://earth.google.com/web/@15.16355344,-44.18799056,-16650.99996117a,31916368d,35y,0h,0t,0r/

https://www.afn.ca/policy-sectors/languages-and-culture/

https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/3567-indigenouslanguages

https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html

 

 

Sign Languages

https://www.sil.org/sign-languages/sign-language-resources

http://www.cslds.org

https://www.ai-media.tv/sign-language-alphabets-from-around-the-world/

https://www.british-sign.co.uk/

https://www.handspeak.com/

 

Museum of Languages in Paris

http://www.mundolingua.org/le-musee-des-langues/

 

physical Multilingual Libraries

Norway - https://dfb.nb.no/multilingual-library

Finland - https://multilingualmonth.org/2018/01/08/multilingual-library-helsinki-finland/

Greece - https://weneedbooks.org/

Scotland - https://www.facebook.com/multilinguallib

England - https://www.awazcumbria.org/awaz-cumbria/multilingual-library

http://shefflibraries.blogspot.com/2019/05/reaching-out-our-new-multilingual.html

https://www.covlanguages.org/ 

https://www.hlenet.org/international-library

 

 

Virtual multilingual libraries

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

https://worldstories.org.uk/index

https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/

https://globalstorybooks.net/

https://wp.sol.us/solus-library-app-now-supporting-24-languages-multilingual-library-app/

 

Quiz

https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/name-world-languages

https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/numbering-systems/en/

http://peterjockisch.com/Sprachstudium/Kapitel-02/Kapitel-02_EN.html

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/index.php?category=Languages

http://www.thelingspace.com/links

 

Languages in their own language

https://www.omniglot.com/language/names.htm

 

Learning languages online

https://www.lifewire.com/best-free-language-learning-websites-1357061

https://linguaholic.com/

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/free-language-learning-websites/

https://www.rosettastone.co.uk/lp/freeforkids/

https://www.rhythm-and-rhyme.net/

 

Apps and more

Apps

Duolingo Learn Languages

Memrise: free language app

Drops: Learn 39 new languages

Learn 50 languages

Rosetta Stone: Learn languages

Learn Languages for Free

Mango Languages

Simply Learn Languages

Busuu: Learn Languages

Beelinguapp: Learn Languages Music & Audio books

https://www.ireviews.com/language-apps

 

FILMs Not to be missed

http://www.human-themovie.org/

https://coloursofthealphabet.com/

 http://tonguetiedfilms.co.uk/colours-of-the-alphabet/