LINGUIST List 21.3484 Tue Aug 31 2010 FYI: VLC Free Online: 500+ Languages with Audio Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Juergen Handke, VLC Free Online: 500+ Languages with Audio Message 1: VLC Free Online: 500+ Languages with Audio Date: 24-Aug-2010 From: Juergen Handke <handkestaff.uni-marburg.de> Subject: VLC Free Online: 500+ Languages with Audio E-mail this message to a friend The Virtual Linguistics Campus invites you to make use of the wealth of linguistics data, in particular its huge language index, which does not only display languages via arbitrary “pins” on a map but by means of associating languages with their speakers. The VLC uses structured language data, i.e. data that is cross-linguistically identical and allows cross-linguistic comparison. (see language index data sheets). Each individual entry of a language consists of: - General information - Details about the speaker with a greeting message - Typological Details (with add. sounds, i.e. Russian palatalization, Chinese tone, Turkish vowel harmony etc.) - Information about the writing system - Morpho/Syntax: A fixed set of words, phrases and clauses (with interactive sound) - The story the North wind and the Sun (with interactive sound) - Info about the numerical system, plus the numbers 1 to 10 (with interactive sound) - The monophthongs (with sounds and specials, e.g. mergers and shifts. ) - The diphthongs (if available) - The consonantal system (with interactive sound) - A free passage (with sound) - Pictures (if delivered by speakers) - Video material (linked with YouTube or private) - Copyright Info Note that most sound samples are coupled with phonetic transcription. The following languages are represented by more than 1 speaker (No# of speakers in brackets): Arabic (5), Bulgarian (4), Catalan (2), Chinese (16), English (40), French (5), Frisian (5), Georgian (2), Greek (8), German (26), Hindi (4), Hungarian (5), Italian (3), Jamaican Creole (17), Japanese (5), Khowar (2), Korean (5), Latvian (2), Lithuanian (3), Polish (5), Portuguese (2), Romanian (3), Russian (16), Serbian (3), Spanish (16), Tarifit (2), Thai (2), Turkish (8), Urdu (3), Wu (3) In addition to these, the VLC Language Index hosts about 300 further languages, many of them with full sound support, some of them highly endangered. Special Features of the VLC Language Index: - Cognate comparison - Generation of vowel clouds - Typological maps with feature search To use the VLC Language Index create your FREE VLC-account. Currently ca. 4,000 users make constitute the VLC-community. If you you are not sure whether you want to register, here is an example of one VLC entry (Turkish/Zonguldak): http://linguistics.online.uni-marburg.de/secure/generalmodules/languages/templates/start.php?lang_ID=7840 Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Phonetics; Typology; Writing Systems Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 31-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.