Links

Linguistic News & Commentary

• ILAT
  (Indegenous Language & Technology) Listserv
• Language Log
• LinguistList

• iTunes World Music – with link to iTunes Store

Transcription Symbols with Audio

• University of Victoria IPA Chart with Sounds
• IPA Charts Shows all  all symbols in the chart
• French IPA (API) Chart with Sound Samples – Text in French, but vocabulary similar to English
• UCLA Phonetics Lab Data – A rich source of sounds from languages around the world

Unicode Phonetics Fonts

These are Unicode fonts which makes documents interchangeable with other Unicode fonts.

• Arial Unicode MS (Microsoft) – On most PCs, but not pretty
• Lucida Grande (Apple) – On most Macs, but not pretty
• TITUS Cyberbit – includes characters from many scripts such as Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Coptic and more.
• Doulos SIL – Includes Greek, Cyrillic
• Gentium – From SIL. Very readable.
• Junicode – Includes characters for medieval languages
• Aboriginal Serif – Includes Cherokee, Canadian Aboriginal, Central Asian Cyrillic

Insert Phonetic Characters

These utilities allow you to insert phonetic characters one by one.

• Character Map (Windows) – On most PCs already.
• Character Palette (Mac) – On most Macs already
• IPA Palette (Mac) – freeware from Brian Hall, Pitt