| A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages: 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 |
| Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics: Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list. |
| Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net: Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis. |
| Chronology: History of English: "Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millenia. |
| Corpora and Historical Linguistics: "Historical linguistics can be seen as a species of corpus linguistics, since the texts of a historical period or a "dead" language form a closed corpus of data which can only be extended by the (re-)discovery of previously unknown manuscripts or books." |
| Encyclopedia.com - Grimm's law: The principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822. |
| English from the 7th to the 18th c.: An attempt at a very brief outline of the history of English by Tuba Ince. |
| Genetic Distance and Language Affinities: Between Autochthonous Human Populations. |
| Grimm's Law: A demonstration of the law. |
| Historical Linguistics Methodology: Academic papers available in Postscript, PDF, and Word97 formats. |
| History of the English Language: 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. |
| Indin: Independent investigations into the history of the Indo-European languages and peoples (by Valentyn Stetsyuk). Includes Turkic and Finno-Ugric material. |
| Indo-European and the Comparative Method: Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask. |
| Introduction to Historical Linguistics: A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics. |
| Kjell Gustafson's homepage - Historical Linguistics: An overview of the field of historical linguistics and its sub-disciplines. |
| Lehmann's Reader: A Reader in Nineteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics: Anthology of important works of nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics, edited and translated by W. P. Lehmann, 1967. |
| Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae: Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links. |
| Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction: The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations. |
| Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages: Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages. |
| Schousboe: Teaching Historical Linguistics: For educators- a course curriculum designed for a one-semester course. |
| Sergei Starostin's Etymological Databases: Currently comprise North Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, Yenisseian, Altaic, Chukchee-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, and (partly) Semitic (proto-) languages. With reconstructed protoforms (including intermediary) and the attested forms in daughter tongues for each etymon. Downloadable, searchable. Need special fonts, also available onsite. |
| Take Our Word for It: Weekly etymology magazine. |
| The Controversy over the Word 'Squaw': The definition of the word 'squaw' and its corruption by the American Indian Movement. |
| The Great Vowel Shift Web Site: An interactive introduction to the Great Vowel Shift, a major sound change in the English language. Includes sound and animation. |
| The Indo-European Language Family: Extensive collection of resources in historical Indo-European linguistics. |
| The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process: Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language. |
| Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method: Lecture notes. |
| What Has a Hippo in Common With a Feather?: Historical linguistics and etymology. |
| Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins: Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search feature. |
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