Linguistics Departments and Language Research Centres Especially Relevant to British Columbia
- Alaska Native Language Center
- Canadian Institute of Linguistics (Trinity Western University)
- Simon Fraser University Linguistics Department
- University of British Columbia Linguistics Department
- University of Victoria Linguistics Department
- Yukon Native Language Centre
Other Linguistics Departments and Language Research Centres of Particular Relevance to Native and other Endangered Languages
- Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages (University of Colorado)
- Survey of California Indian Languages
- University of California (Davis) Native American Language Center
First Nations Language Institutes
Organizations Dealing With Endangered Languages In General
- Canadian Linguistic Association
- Canadian Linguistic Association Committee on Aboriginal Languages
- Endangered Languages Fund
- European Minority Languages
- First Nations Education Steering Committee
- First People's Cultural Foundation
- Foundation For Endangered Languages
- Indigenous Language Institute (formerly IPOLA)
- International Clearing House for Endangered Languages
- Linguistic Society of America
- Native Languages of the Americas
- The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
- Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Terralingua
- Volkswagen Foundation Documentation of Endangered Languages Project
Specific First Nations Languages and Language Groups
(other than the languages of British Columbia)
- Abenaki
- Acjachemem [Juaneño]
- Alabama
- Algonquian and Iroquoian Languages (Manitoba Association for Native Languages)
- Algonquian and Iroquoian Languages (Woodland Cultural Centre)
- Algonquin (Algonquins of Golden Lake)
- Alsea
- Aymara (lessons)
- Apache (Chiricahua and Mescalero texts)
- Apache (Jicarilla Audio Materials)
- Blackfoot
- Blackfoot
- Cahto
- California Athapascan Home Page
- Cherokee (The Cherokee Companion)
- Cherokee (Language Lessons)
- Cherokee (Cherokee Messenger)
- Cherokee (Script Projects)
- Cherokee (Font Information)
- Cherokee (Script Encoding Proposal)
- Cheyenne
- Chinook Jargon
- Choctaw
- Chumash
- Coast Miwok
- Comanche (Numu Tekwapuha Nomneekatu)
- Cree
- Cree (East)
- Creek
- Dakelh [Carrier] (Yinka Dene Language Institute)
- Dakota
- Dene Souline (Chippewyan)
- Guarani
- Halkomelem (Language Lessons)
- Hawaiian ('Aha Punana Leo)
- Hawaiian (Kualono)
- Hocak [Winnebago](Hocak Wazijaci Language and Culture Program)
- Inuktitut
- Iñupiaq (dictionary)
- Ioway-Otoe
- Iroquoian-Cayuga and Mohawk (Six Nations Polytechnic)
- Iroquoian-Cayuga, Mohawk, and Onandaga (Iroquois Language and Songs))
- Iroquoian-Cayuga, Mohawk, and Onandaga
- Karuk
- Karuk
- Klallam
- Ktunaxa (Kutenai)[Examples of sounds]
- Ktunaxa (Kutenai) [Ktunaxa Kinbasket Tribal Council]
- Kumeyaay
- Lakota (Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin = Lakota Language and Book Resources)
- Lakota (Sioux Heritage)
- Lakota Books
- Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
- Mapudungun
- Mayan (K'inal Winik Archive and Maya Curriculum Project)
- Mayan
- Mayan (Mostly cultural rather than linguistic but very good.)
- Miami
- Michif (The Creolist Archives)
- Michigamea
- Micmac
- Mingo (EGADS Project)
- Mohawk (language learning software)
- Mohawk (Tsi Ronterihwanónhnha Ne Kanien'kéha Ne Kanehsatà:ke)
- Nahuatl (Ameyaltepec)
- Navajo (Analytical Lexicon )
- Navajo (Codetalkers' Dictionary)
- Navajo (Multimedia Children's Books)
- Navajo (Navajo Language Academy)
- Navajo (Navajo Sentence Machine)
- Navajo (Windtalkers film site)
- Ojibwe
- Ojibwe (Anishinaabe)
- Ojibwe (Language and Culture)
- Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin/Chippewa)
- Okanagan (Enowkin Centre)
- Omaha-Ponca
- Oneida (Oneida Indian Language Project))
- Quechua
- Potawatomi
- Potawatomi (lessons)
- Potawatomi (includes grammar)
- Saanich
- Shoshoni (dictionary)
- Siouan-Omaha/Ponca (Siouan Languages)
- Slave (Dene Cultural Institute)
- Tohono O'odham [Papago]
- Washo (Revitalization Project)
- Yurok (Yurok Language Project)
Indigenous and Endangered Languages Outside the Americas
- Aboriginal Languages of Australia
- Atayal [Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan]
- Australian Languages
- Ega (Ivory Coast)
- Eurominorities [Information of all sorts on European minorities]
- European Minority Languages [Links]
- Finno-Ugrian Language Links
- Gamilaraay (Australia)
- Jiwarli (Australia)
- Miinoritarnie Yazyka Evrop (Minority Languages of Europe) [in Russian]
- Minority Languages of Russia
- Mon Culture and Literature Survival Project
- Nias Language and Culture (Indonesia)[Mostly in Bahasa Indonesia]
- SURI (Minority Languages of Eurasia, Especially Uralic)
- Taiwan Aboriginal Rights
- Warlpiri (Kirrkirr On-Line Dictionary Project)
Publications Available On-Line
- Alaska Guidelines for Strengthening Indigenous Languages
- Learn in Beauty: Indigenous Education for a New Century
- Reversing Language Shift: Can Kwak'wala be Revived?
Sources of Information
- Bibliography of Northwest Coast Linguistics
- Ethnologue
- Ezdictionary Lingua Resources Directory
- GoodMinds.com (Aboriginal Educational Resources)
- Fourth World Documentation Project
- Indigenous Languages of Mexico
- Linguistic Exploration Page
- Linguistics Virtual Library
- Lisa Mitten's Linguistics Page
- Lisa Mitten's Native Language Page
- Native American Language Resources
- Native Book Store
- Profiles of Native Language Education Programmes in Arkansas, Lousiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas
- Resources for Endangered Languages
- Statistics Canada Aboriginal Language Data
- Teaching Indigenous Languages
- Wayne Leman's Native Language Links
Journals
- Anthropological Linguistics
- Etudes/Inuit/Studies
- International Journal of American Linguistics
- International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Political Organizations
- Assembly of First Nations
- Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council
- Chiefs of Ontario
- Circumpolar Inuit Conference
- First Nations Summit
- Inuit Tapirisaat of Canada
- Department of Indian Affairs
Archives
- British Columbia Provincial Archives
- Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions
- Hudson's Bay Company Archives
- Mundus Gateway to British Missionary Resources
Miscellaneous
- Aboriginal People's Television Network
- Audio Samples of Various Canadian First Nations Languages
- Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers
- Finding Our Talk Television Series (Mushkeg Media)
- First Nations on Schoolnet
- Halkomelem Ethnobiology
- Linguistic Perspectives on Endangered Languages Conference Web Site
- The House of Canada: Aboriginal Language Plaques
- Open Language Archive Community
- Protective Legislation for Aboriginal Languages in Canada
- Provincial Residential Schools Project
- "The Sociolinguistics of the 'S-Word' Squaw in American Placenames" (text of paper by Bill Bright)
- Teacher Certification in British Columbia
- Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights
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