| Seshat the Scribe's Extinct Languages Library |
Description of the writing systems of several extinct languages, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, cuneiform, Linear B, runes and other undeciphered scripts.
http://seshat_the_scribe.tripod.com/index.html
A project that aims at tracing the origin of the world's current 6,000 languages to a dozen or so protolanguages spoken around the 12th - 9th millennia before Common Era.
http://www.jum.ru/finproj/protol.htm
| The Role of the Hand in the Evolution of Language |
A gestural theory of the origin of language.
http://dbiref.uvt.nl:2080/~place/utplace/HAND98.htm
| 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.
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
| Genetic Distance and Language Affinities |
Between Autochthonous Human Populations.
http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm
| 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."
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/corpus4/4
hist.htm
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