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 History of the English Language - http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html A considerable collection of online materials related to the history of English: texts, publications, fonts and course syllabuses. Includes Pre-History, Old English, Middle English, early Modern English and the spread of English beyond the British Isles. |
 Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae - http://soltdm.tripod.com/home.htm Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links. |
 Genetic Distance and Language Affinities - http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm Between Autochthonous Human Populations. |
 Introduction to Historical Linguistics - http://www.mit.edu/~ejhanna/language/histlang.html A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics. |
 Chronology: History of English - http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/chron.html "Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia. |
 Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics - http://www.ancientscripts.com/hl.html Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list. |
 The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw' - http://www.tomjonas.com/squawpeak/squaw.htm The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement. |
 The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process - http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language. |
 Take Our Word for It - http://www.takeourword.com/ Weekly etymology magazine. |
 The Great Vowel Shift Web Site - http://www.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/ An interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language. Includes sound and animation. |
 What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather? - http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html Historical linguistics and etymology. |
 Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method - http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/lectures/05lect21.html Lecture notes. |
 Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction - http://www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/papers/working_papers:johns_hopkins_pcid/chase-dunn_hokan The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations. |
 Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net - http://phaseit.net/claird/sci.anthropology/index.html Two software applications to aid glottochronological and lexostatistical analysis. |
 Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages - http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/afroasia.htm Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages. |
 Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins - http://www.wordorigins.org/ Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature. |
 Grimm's Law - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~clunis/wow/grimm/ A demonstration of the law. |
 Indin - http://www.geocities.com/valentyn_ua/ Independent investigations into the history of the Indo-European languages and peoples (by Valentyn Stetsyuk). Includes Turkic and Finno-Ugric material. |
 English from the 7th to the 18th c. - http://www.ingilish.com/orofeng.htm An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince. |
 Indo-European and the Comparative Method - http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask. |
 The Indo-European Language Family - http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-lg/ie-lg.html Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics. |
 Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics - http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjellg/kg_historical_linguistics.htm An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines. |
 A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages - http://www.hjholm.de Since most scholars assume an Indo-European homeland in the steppes north of the Black Sea, a full video study of this option is presented, based on the splits suggested by the Separation Base Method |
 Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics - http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/hoe/pschousboe.htm For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course. |