SCOTS (Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech)
SCOTS provides 'valuable material not only for language researchers, but also for those working in education, government, the creative arts, media and tourism, who have a more general interest in Scottish culture and identity. It would provide important data about English as used in Scotland, and also Scots, in its many varieties, Gaelic, and the principal community languages.'

Scots Online

Scots Language Resource Centre

Selected Classified Bibliography of the Scots Language
Caroline Macafee's comprehensive and regularly updated bibliography of publications on Scots.

The Case for Scots in the 2001 Census
An expanded version of the case submitted to the Scottish Office on 16th December 1995. Since then, Scots language bodies have lobbied Local Authorities, Tourist Boards, and Local Enterprise Companies, with a large measure of success.

Scottish Literature and Language Resources

Lowlands List

Language and Identities in the North-East of Scotland
School of English & Film Studies research project directed by Robert McColl Millar.

'Sound Comparisons': Dialect and Language Comparison and Classification by Phonetic Similarity
Based at the University of Edinburgh, this project seeks to 'develop and explore methods for measuring the degree of phonetic similarity between accents of English; English and other Germanic languages and varieties; Germanic and Romance languages; and varieties of the two main indigenous language families spoken in the Andes, Quechua and Aymara.

Old English Pages

HEL- History of the English Language

BBC Radio 4 'Routes of English'

Bibliographies on Language Endangerment, Preservation, and Diversity

Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim

Edward Sapir's Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech
The classic text, available here in its entirety.

Less Commonly Taught Languages
The Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project operates under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota. Less commonly taught languages include all of the world's languages except English, French, German, and Spanish.

Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
The MPI's Department of Linguistics investigates the diversity of human language and the historical processes underlying this diversity.

Two sites (1) and (2) dedicated to Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914)
...the founder of American pragmatism (or 'pragmaticism'), extender of the Scotistic theory of signs ('semeiotic'), extraordinarily prolific logician and mathematician, and developer of an evolutionary, psycho-physically monistic metaphysical system.

On the 'Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow' myth (1) and (2)

The Emperor's New Linguistics
A not-very-favourable review of Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and the Human Language Series of videos, by Alexander Gross.

Dan Moonhawk Alford (1946-2002)
Pages by Don Watson, dedicated to 'a really smart guy who published most of his linguistics on the web'.

Thanks to Dr. Alex King, Dept. of Anthropology, for the links in this section.

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