A collection of books about writing, language, linguistics and related topics gathered together in one place for your convenience. By buying something here you'll be helping to support this site.
Writing systems, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Mayan, Ogham, Runes, Shorthand, Numbers and numerals, Calligraphy, Reading
Origins of language, Language and languages, Learning languages, Idioms, Language extinction, Bilingualism / Multilingualism, Celtic languages, English, Germanic languages, Slavic languages
Linguistics, Phonetics & Phonology, Paleolinguistics
Livres au sujet de langage et linguistique (en français)
For popular languages, such as French, Spanish and German, numerous courses and other materials are available, and for these languages I have selected materials I know to be good and/or that have received good reviews. For lesser-studied languages, I have listed all the materials I can find.
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Basque, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese/Myanmar, Cambodian, Cantonese, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Gothic, Greek (Modern), Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hokkien, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Mandarin Chinese, Manx (Gaelic), Mayan, Mongolian, Nahuatl, Norwegian, Occitan, Old Church Slavonic, Old English, Old Norse, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Serbian, Shanghainese, Sicilian, Sindarin, Sinhala, Sioux (Lakota/Dakota), Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
Electronic dictionaries and translators
Transparent Language - 15% off orders of $35 or more
Multilingual language-learning software
Matériaux pour apprendre les langues étrangères (en français)
Esperanto, Klingon, Tolkien's languages (Quenya, Sindarin, etc)
A even greater selection of language learning and other language-related materials can be found in the Omniglot aStores.
Asterix, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Tintin, Winnie the Pooh
Human Evolution, Travel books featuring languages
Read free books online on a variety of topics (including language learning)
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If you would like to recommend any books, dictionaries, language courses, CDs or other items which do not already appear here, please write to: simon [at] omniglot.com
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