Resources by languages
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Semitic languages - Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects
The Semitic languages family represented in SOAS Library’s Middle East section includes Arabic and other Arabic dialects (Egyptian, Iraqi, Moroccan, Maltese, etc.) .
Online dictionaries
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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online: Arabic-English, English-Arabic
Currently featuring over 130,000 words and phrases and 200,000 translations from the Oxford Arabic Dictionary, plus extra tools and resources such as tables of Arabic verb conjugations, full forms of Arabic numbers, dates, and years. Vowels in all Arabic text help non-Arabic speakers in pronunciation and comprehension.
This up-to-date resource has been designed for both Arabic and English native speakers and includes the latest vocabulary from computing, business, the media, and the arts, across both languages.
[ On-campus ] / [ Off-campus ] - Edward William Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (Dictionary) Downloadable in PDF Format for free.
- Sakhr English-Arabic Dictionary
- Sakhr Arabic- English Dictionary
- Al-Buraq Arabic – English Dictionary [https://www.alburaq.net/]
- Arabic to English dictionary
- English to Arabic dictionary
- Arabic vocabulary
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A dictionary of modern written Arabic / Hans Wehr (1961)
A staple dictionary, not the most recent edition but it is fully searchable, which makes it very useful. -
Etymological Dictionary of Arabic (EtymArab)
The University of Oslo developed this etymologico-conceptual dictionary of the Arabic language, covering roots and terms of particular significance for the mental and cultural history of the Arabs.
Teaching methods, etc.
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Handbook for Students of Arabic
This online handbook is an introduction to strategies and resources that can help students in their study of the Arabic language. It has been developed under the auspices of the National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC) -
Arabic Gateway
Introductory material for learning Arabic. -
Arabistan
Web resources for learning materials in Arabic. -
LookLex Arabic Course
Free online Arabic course teaching basic sentences, how to write, count and introduces to grammar. -
Arabic Without Walls
Arabic 1AW or "Arabic Without Walls," is a first-year Arabic instruction in a distance-learning format taught through UC Berkeley. It is based on the textbook Al-Kitaab fii Ta`alum al-Arabiyya (Brustad et al., 2nd ed., Georgetown University Press, 2004). -
Arabic language
This online free encyclopaedia is a source of very good articles. This article gives an interesting family tree of dialects and a brief table of their phonological variations. - BYU Independent Study
- NaturalArabic - A collection of topical news stories (updated weekly) from Arabic newspapers, with parallel English translations and recordings by native Arabic speakers. Users can click on any word to hear it read aloud and see the translation highlighted or they can play the whole recording to hear it read at natural speed.
- Arab Academy
- DalilUSA.com
- BABEL:arabic
- The Arabic Cyberclassroom
- schoolarabia.net
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Almedia
Linguistics corpuses
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SemArch - Semitisches Tonarchiv
This online archive created by the University of Heidelberg (Germany) contains audio recordings for Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Ethiopian and Neo-South Arabic languages and dialects, divided into: 2077 Audio-documents / 527 Speakers ; 20 Countries / 60 Regions / 224 Places ; 43 Editors and 51 Types of documents. -
The Quranic Arabic Corpus
This is an annotated linguistic resource which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran. The corpus provides three levels of analysis: morphological annotation , a syntactic treebank and a semantic ontology . -
Corpus Linguistics
This website, created and maintained by an academic linguist Dr Ayman Eddakrouri, is designed as a directory to Arabic linguistic corpora. Three mains sections are available:
1. Arabic corpora: Web-based (Searchable) corpora and Textual corpora (Text Files)
2. Centers/Institutions.
3. Software/Tools.
Literatures
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Al-Waraq
Provides over a million pages of Arabic and Islamic works (the whole site is in Arabic). This is a very good site that provides extensive information on Arabic literature and humanities (philosophy, theology...) and also full-text version of a number of texts for free, you just need to register first. - Al-Mawsuah al-shamilah provides 5000 ebooks in Arabic, searchable and downloadable. Mainly on religious topics and Islamic law, but also contains some works of classical literature.
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction IPAF is an annual literary run with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London and funded by the TCA Abu Dhabi in the UAE. The website provides information and numerous links on contemporary Arabic literature.
- American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) links to Arabic resources
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National Library of Israel Digital Library
Much of this site is in Hebrew, but it also has material accessible to English speakers. It contains over 400 digital books, historic newspapers (mainly Jewish European publications from the 19th and early 20th centuries), 1,500 maps and 6,500 photographs of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, the National Sound Archives recordings and YouTube videos of cultural events at the National Library. -
The Arab Writers Union
A site which has well developed since 1999. It gives a useful repertory of contemporary Syrian writers who are or were members of this organization, and a full text version of numbers of their most recent literary works (essays in Arabic literature or society, novels, plays, short stories…) -
Arabic story
A site devoted to modern Arabic short story and its criticism. There is a brief biography of each author and a sample of his/her work in full text version most of the time. Each section (authors’ repertory, stories, essays in criticism…) is classified by country. -
Home of Egyptian & Arab authors on the Web
A user maintained webpage, but it seems to be quite reliable and pretty extensive. It is worth to look at when searching for primary information on less well-known Egyptian authors. -
Moroccan Writers Union
This site gives a useful repertory of contemporary Moroccan writers who are or were members of this organization, and a full text version of numbers of their most recent literary works (essays in Arabic literature or society, novels, plays, short stories...) -
Tunisian Writers' Union
Site in French and Arabic. Provides short bio-bibliographies of Tunisian contemporary writers. -
Union of Syrian Men of Letters
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction
IPAF is an annual literary run with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London and funded by the TCA Abu Dhabi in the UAE. The website provides information and numerous links on contemporary Arabic literature. -
Rashf
Has over 38,000 Arabic ebooks available for free download. The books cover a variety of subjects and can be searched by book title or author’s name.Users need to register first via their Facebook or Twitter account to access the full-text version. -
Hindawi Books
The Hindawi Association offers nearly a thousand Arabic ebooks to download (as PDF, PUB or Kindle format) in a variety of subjects and be searched by keyword, authors' name or title. -
Arabic Literature
(In English)
This fresh and well-documented blog about contemporary Arabic literature is edited by Marcia Lynx Qualey, a writer and reader based in Cairo, Egypt. It is supported and contributed by several Arabic-speaking and English-speaking writers. -
Middle East/North African Lit
The books discussion group is part of Goodreads , one of the largest site for readers and book recommendations. This group is for those who enjoy reading books written by those who originate from the Middle East/North Africa. Books include fiction and non-fiction. Registration is free. -
Layla the Chaste
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Digital archive of Arabic cultural and literary journals = أرشيف المجلات الأدبية والثقافية العربية
This website was created by Marlé Hammond, Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture at SOAS University of London, and is devoted to the topic of the Arabic epic of Layla Bint Lukayz, a supposedly pre-Islamic woman poet also known as Layla al-'Afifa (Layla the Chaste). All aspects of her epic related in modern popular songs and films are explored in this website, which provides a great insight in Arabic popular literature and culture.http://archive.sakhrit.co/
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Iranian Languages [Persian and other Iranian languages and dialects (Pahlevi, Avestan, Dari, etc.)]
Baluchi
Online dictionaries
- Barker, Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman. A course in Baluchi . Montreal: Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, 1969.
- Collett, N. A. A grammar, phrase book and vocabulary of Baluchi: (as spoken in the Sultanate of Oman) . 2nd ed. [Camberley]: [N.A. Collett], 1986.
- Mumtaz Ahmad. Baluchi glossary: a Baluchi-English glossary: elementary level . Kensington, Md.: Dunwoody Press, 1985.
Teaching methods, etc
- In focus Balochi Language is a web portal gathering information and links on the Balochi language.
- Barker, Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman. A course in Baluchi . Montreal: Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, 1969.
- Collett, N. A. A grammar, phrase book and vocabulary of Baluchi: (as spoken in the Sultanate of Oman) . 2nd ed. [Camberley]: [N.A. Collett], 1986.
Kurdish
Teaching methods, etc
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Dibistana Kurdi (the Kurdish school)
Site in Kurdish. -
The Encyclopaedia of Kurdistan : is of limited value
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Kurdish Media : is a portal that provides links to all aspects of Kurdistan and Kurds
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Kurdish language and linguistics (Kurd_lal) :refers mainly to articles, which are interesting per se (mostly bibliographical links, but also academic information), but not really well presented. One of the links proposed seems more interesting : Kurdish Corpus (Kurdish Corpus initiative : a proposal).
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Dibistana Kurdi : is a homepage created by Haydar Diljen first and is now part of a national project (National Agency for Education). [NB: the interface language is Kurdish but the introduction to the site is available in several other languages].
Persian
Literature
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Ensani : Portal jami' ulum insani
پرتال جامع علوم انسانی
This portal [in Persian only] offers free search and access to journal articles in social sciences and humanities fields ( literature, economics, history, education, geography, law, psychology, linguistics, social sciences, Islamic science, political science, library science, philosophy and logic, management, women studies, art studies ). Most articles are available as full-text and can be freely downloaded.
Online dictionaries
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A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (F. J. Steingass)
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A New Persian-English Dictionary (S. Hayyim)
Teaching methods, etc
- Farsiabad
- Persian is Sugar
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Persian language
Wikipedia article that includes lots of relevant references -
Culture of Iran
provides basic information on Iranian culture, history and practices. - The international Society for Iranian Studies
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Persian Grammar Guide
The Persian Grammar Guide is a free online resource for Persian language learners, developped by the San Diego State University’s Language Acquisition Resource Cente.
Pushto
Online dictionaries
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Pushto-English dictionary (H. G. Raverty)
Teaching methods, etc
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Turkic languages [Turkish and other Turkic languages (Uzbek, Uighur, Kazakh, Chagatai, Kyrgyz…)]
Turkish
Online dictionaries
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Turkish dictionaries
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Turkcekent
Web resources for learning Turkish.
Literatures
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Turkish Poetry
Full text selection of poems from early 20th century to present, along with bio-bibliographic information on authors. Site created by a young assistant professor in Turkish literature, Sibel Adali. -
The Online Bibliography of Ottoman-Turkish literature
Is a free and extensive database of references to theses, books, articles, papers and projects relating to research into Ottoman-Turkish culture. Available both in English and Turkish. -
Open Access Bibliographies: National Library of Turkey
In Turkish. A bibliography of Turkish publications kept at the National Library of Turkey
since 1946 to present. Among others, this portal features a few dedicated bibliographies of major Turkish authors, a searchable database of Turkish articles (for the period 1923-1999) and a database of Greek and Armenian publications published in Turkey. A monthly bibliography of
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Reading with Atatürk
In Turkish. Tour the IU Library of Rare Works where users can download and choose books to read from among 175 works read by Atatürk.
Turkic Languages
Online dictionaries
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Turkcestan
Web resources for learning Turkic languages.
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Caucasian languages [Georgian and other Caucasian languages]
Teaching methods, etc.
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Georgian
History, basic phrases and alphabet of Georgian language. -
The Georgian language : an outline grammatical summary
Very clear presentation of the Georgian language, which comes with a useful table of Georgian alphabets with audio samples of each phoneme. It also offers a good English-Georgian online dictionary.
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Georgian
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Armenian language
Teaching methods, etc.
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Armenian lessons online
Beginning Armenian lessons for English speakers. Includes pronunciation (in both Eastern and Western Armenian), the alphabet, some introductory vocabulary and grammar. Includes link to free Armenian fonts for Windows and an Armenian dictionary
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Armenian lessons online