Ethnologue : Languages of the world

http://www.ethnologue.com/

Search this extensive database by countries of the world. Reliable information about language groups is contained here.

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L'amenagement linguistique dans le monde / Jacques Leclerc / Universite Laval

http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/

This website in French presents background information on minority languages in more than 90 countries.

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The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire / 1993 / Eesti Keele Institute/Institute of the Estonian Language / Consultants: Ants Viires and Lauri Vahtre / Edited by Andrew Humpries and Krista Mits

http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/

This is a major attempt to draw public attention to peoples whose existence is marked by the threat of extinction. Information regarding many minority groups and their languages can be found here. Included are such groups as Chukchis, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Lithuanian Tatars, and many others.

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Mercator : linguistic rights and legislation

http://www.ciemen.org/mercator/index-gb.htm

Legislation and further research information on minority languages can be found in a useful database here, along with a bibliographical database, full text working papers, and an annotated links list. Highly recommended as an excellent starting point for research.

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Mercator Network

http://www.mercator-central.org

The Mercator network gathers and generates information on minoritized, minority and regional languages through its three centres with specialties in Education, Legislation, and Media. Highly recommended as an excellent starting point for research.

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European Policies on Minority Languages, and the Media / Tom Moring / 5 October 2006 / Renvall Institute, Helsinki

http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/renvall/eka/news/birevents06-07/Moring_5.10.2006.pdf

In accelerating language shift and assimilation of minority communities, the media effect tends to undermine minority identities. To counter this, minority-language media would in many cases perform a restitutionary function and serve as a defensive tool balancing the media impact in the language that dominates the media landscape. European policies on media and minority languages have developed on the basis of this defensive perspective.

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Support for Minority Languages in Europe / Final Report / Francois Grin, Tom Moring et. al. / European Commission

http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/pdf/doc639_en.pdf

The purpose of this report is to provide the necessary instruments for the orientation of European Union support to linguistic diversity. This issue is addressed in a broader context, characterised by the existence of other policies carried out at various levels (national, regional, local) with an aim to protect and promote regional and minority languages. Highly recommended.

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The Online Resources for Endangered Languages Links Library / OREL / The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project / School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London

http://www.hrelp.org/languages/resources/orel/

The OREL Links Library contains 250 annotated links to web resources on revitalising or documenting endangered languages, including links on language endangerment and revitalisation, technology and techniques, ethical issues and funding sources. To find resources on these topics, use the View links by topic box in the right-hand column. This resource is also available in Arabic.

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Database for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages / Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research

http://languagecharter.eokik.hu/index.htm

Dedicated to the ECRML, this database contains documents produced during the monitoring process. Highly recommended.

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Provincial and Territorial Government Contributions to the Development of Francophone Minority Communities : Assessment and Projections (2007) / Daniel Bourgeois et al. / Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities

http://icrml.ca/images/stories/documents/en/cmfc-eng.pdf

For more than forty years, the governments of the nine provinces and three northern territories that are majority Anglophone have been striving to promote the language and culture of the Francophone minority and thereby contribute to development. As the 1967 Royal Commission of Bilingualism and Biculturalism recognized, their contribution towards official languages is essential, for linguistic equality depends on the efforts of provincial and territorial (and municipal) institutions as much as, if not more than, it does on those of federal institutions.

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