Links

Austronesian languages

• Bob Blust's monumental Austronesian Comparative Dictionary in the making
• The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, a comparative dictionary hosted at the University of Auckland

Aboriginal culture in Taiwan

• The Digital Museum of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples contains a very decent introduction into the officially recognized Aboriginal tribes of Taiwan.
• The Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Resource Center (in Chinese), in information centre belonging to the Council of Indigenous Peoples.
• The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, situated next to the National Palace Museum. A rather gloomy place, which contains a sizable collection Taiwanese Aboriginal artifacts
• The National Museum of Prehistory in Taidong has a great collection of prehistoric artifacts, Austronesian and pre-Austronesian, related to Taiwan

Language description and documentation

• Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx), a powerful program used to create dictionaries and interlinearised text corpora
• ELAN, a computer program that many linguists for time-aligning media files with transcriptions and translations. Not for the faint-hearted
• Lexique Pro, a neat program to publish dictionaries to electronic and paper formats
• IPA keyboards for Windows, Mac and Linux, developed by the people at SIL International

Linguistic resources

• Ethnologue, an very complete online encyclopedia of the world's living languages
• Glottolog, a rather intimidating database of reference information of many languages past and present
• MultiTree, a database of historical relationships between languages
• Omniglot, an online encyclopedia of script systems
• The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), a comparative database of language structures
• OLAC, the Open Language Archive Community, a website containing overview information about linguistic resources for most of the world's languages