Ancient Languages List

1 Ryan-Ancient Languages and Scripts

http://www.plu.edu/~ryandp/texts.html

Thoughts on the study of ancient languages and scripts from European languages, Arabic, Hebrew, Akkadian, Sumerian and those of Polynesia, along with Ancient Egyptiand Since the decipherment by Champollion of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, inscriptions from antiquity continue to be discovered. Examines scripts such as Easter Islands rongo-rongo which still seem to defy translation and the ancient Mayan glyphs which are beginning to be revealed.

2 The Bhagavat Gita Sanskrit Verses

http://www.iconsoftec.com/gita/

The entire contents of the Bhagavat Gita in Sanskrit are presented here in 2 formats (Acrobat and PostScript).

3 Teaching Indiginous Languages

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

This site is an outgrowth of a series of annual conferences at Northern Arizona University focusing on the linguistic, educational, social, and political issues related to the survival of the endangered indigenous languages of the world.

4 Native American Languages

http://www.indians.org/welker/americas.htm

Indigenous languages history and discussion of native American languages at the time of first European contact, with information on close to 1,000 American Indian languages were spoken in North, Central, and South America.

5 Sanskrit Buddhist Text Input Project

http://newageonthenet.com/study.shtml

This research center works in cooperation with the Institute of East Asian Studies on the Berkeley campus to input 20,000 pages of Sanskrit Buddhist texts.

6 K-12: African Languages

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/menu_EduLANG.html

Africa Guide for K-12 Resources Country-Specific archive and information on languages of Africa.

7 Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

http://www.degruyter.de/journals/jall/

has established itself as an important refereed forum for publications in African linguistics.

8 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

http://www.ssila.org/

The SSILA is an international scholarly organization representing American Indian linguistics and is open to all those who are interested in the scientific study of the languages of the native peoples of North, Central and South America.

9 Mayan Language

http://www.halfmoon.org/langfork.html

Mayan hieroglyphic writing and writing system includes "Talking Syllabary" and a selection of known Mayan glyphs.

10 Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica

http://www.albany.edu/anthro/maldp

Project to document the lexicon, phonology, and morphosyntax of all living Mije-Sokean languages.

11 Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica

http://www.albany.edu/pdlma/

The Hopi Indians, which means good, peaceful, or wise, come from a group of Southwestern people called Pueblo, but their language is different.

12 Official Site of the Cherokee Nation

http://www.cherokee.org/

Site based in Tahlequah Oklahoma is the federally recognized Cherokee Official Web Site.