a database of language word list data with audio samples
for analysis and historical and comparative linguistic reconstruction.

Resources

Comparative African Word List (Snider and Roberts, 2004)

Snider, Keith and James Roberts (2004) SIL Comparative African Word List (SILCAWL). The Journal of West African Languages 31.2, 73-122.

Format: MS-Word (527kB) PDF (150kB)

This is also posted at SIL Electronic Working Papers at: www.sil.org/silewp/yearindex.asp?year=2006.

Comparative African Word List - Toolbox database

This zip file contains the SIL Comparative African Word List in a Toolbox database (see below) to facilitate data gathering and data entry.

SIL Comparative African Word List Toolbox Template.zip (157kB)

Other Useful Links

• scripts.sil.org/FontDownloads
  Freely available Unicode Fonts with the entire IPA character set and keyboarding utilities.
• www.sil.org/computing/toolbox
  The Field Linguist's Toolbox is an SIL software application that facilitates a number of different linguistic tasks.
• scripts.sil.org/TECkit
  TECKit is a free set of tools to help convert documents to Unicode.
• scripts.sil.org/UniIPAKeyboard
  IPA Unicode Windows Keyboards are available to help users type IPA in Unicode on their computers. Keyman and MSKL versions are available.
• fieldworks.sil.org
  A suite of software tools to help language teams manage language and cultural data, with support for complex scripts.
• ethnologue.com
  Catalog of languages of the world.