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East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
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East & Southeast Asia: Language Resources
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Languages & Scripts Dictionaries CJK Computing
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Languages & Scripts
Content-Rich Ancient Scripts Writing systems; phonetics; historical linguistics; miscellaneous; bibliography; links
Asian Language Study Programs Compiled by UCLA Center for East Asian Studies
Asian Name Pronunciation Guide Cal Poly Pomona site providing hints, phonetic pronunciations, & sound files for Cambodian, Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin), Filipino, & Vietnamese names
Content-Rich Ethnologue: Languages of the World Searchable Web version of 14th edition (2000) edited by Barbara F. Grimes; publication catalog; software; bibliography
Content-Rich Ethnologue: Languages of the World: Areas & Regions "228 country files organized into five geographical areas"
Content-Rich iLoveLanguages: Your Guide to Languages On the Web Tyler Chambers's comprehensive catalog of over 2000 language-related Internet resources, annotated & classified by subject & categorical listings
Content-Rich LearningLanguages.Net "portal that brings together the best online foreign language resources for English-speaking K-12 students and teachers": browsable by language or category (including media & technology)
Content-Rich Linguasphere "classifying the world's languages, dialects & speech communities"
Content-Rich LSA/CELP Endangered Languages Database Linguistic Society of America / Committee on Endangered Languages & Their Preservation: searchable by keyword & sortable by location of language community
Content-Rich Omniglot - a Guide to Writing Systems "a guide to over 200 different alphabets, syllabaries & other writing systems including a few you will find nowhere else"
Content-Rich Resources for the Study of East Asian Language & Thought Charles Muller's list of electronic texts, references, & links
Transparent Language: Language & Culture Pages Language overview, survival phases, & language products for over 30 languages from Transparent Language
Content-Rich UCLA Language Materials Project "Learning resources for less commonly taught languages of the world"
VOA Pronunciation Guide Pronunciation of foreign names searchable by exact search, near search, list, or country
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Dictionaries
Content-Rich CJKV-English Dictionary Charles Muller's "Dictionary-Database of CJK Characters and Compounds Related to East Asian Cultural, Political, and Intellectual History" (password/quota system required for access)
Content-Rich Wiktionary "a collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies and pronunciations"
Content-Rich yourDictionary.com Language dictionaries; multi-lingual dictionaries; translation; grammars; language identifiers; endangered language repository
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CJK Computing
Character Sets and Character Encoding: A Brief Introduction Overview by Ardie Bausenbach, Library of Congress (RLG DigiNews, April 15, 2004)
CJK Language Computing An extensive list of links on how to display Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) on the Internet, CJK email, CJK word processing, & related issues --- maintained by Wai-keung Chung of the University of Washington
CJK Language Packs A guide to CJK computing on the Windows platform by Gyula Zsigri
eKanji Home Page (in Japanese) CJK character (kanji) information site at University of Shimane
Fonts In Cyberspace Sources of language fonts on the Internet, including non-Roman fonts & word processors
IT Answers: MS Global IME The University of Queensland's AskIT: how to write & view Web pages in Chinese, Japanese & Korean with IME
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Installing and Using East Asian Languages Under Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP How to install East Asian language support under Windows 2000 Professional & Windows XP; writing Chinese & Japanese; sending & receiving Chinese & Japanese e-mail
Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications Alan Wood's Unicode Resources, "intended to help people who are trying to use Unicode to produce standardised multilingual and technical documents"
Unihan Database "a database of information regarding the CJK Unified Ideographs (Unihan) which are a part of the Unicode Standard, Version 4.0": search tool for four- or five-digit hexadecimal identifiers of characters; Unihan grid & radical stroke indices
NewWhat is an IME (Input Method Editor) and How do I Use It? Russ Rolfe's brief explanations of the many IMEs to write Chinese, Japanese & Korean under Windows XP (Microsoft Global Development & Computing Portal)
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