Edited by two Michigan universities, the Linguist List provides an astounding array of resources for linguists.

Even after writing this blog for over four years, I am always discovering amazing online resources – and they aren’t always new, either.

For example, how could I have never run into The Linguist List? Although it is more geared to academic linguists than translators and other language service professionals, it certainly contains much of interest to anyone involved in languages.

Founded in 1990 by Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, a linguistics professor at the University of Western Australia, the site is independent, but edited by Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University. It presents an astounding array of language resources that I will not even attempt to present exhaustively – mainly because it would take me several days to assess them.

Personally, I got caught up in its listing of online dictionaries, which is a mere sub-sub-category of the site. It presents hundreds of online dictionaries and glossaries, both multilingual and monolingual. I could get lost perusing The A-Z dictionary of Modern France, which defines, in English, cultural notions and abbreviations that can confuse even long-time residents.

And I admire the scholar who is developing an Albanian-Spanish dictionary that now has about 16,000 entries. This may not be the world’s most likely language pair, but author and linguist Pablo Nieto is devoted enough to the concept to peck away at the project.

It is also delightful to know that there is a 4-language Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker out there!

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Betty Carlson