This is a page for gathering resources. It's under construction. Some of this is pulled from stuff I found dredging through my bookmarks. See my blinkies page for blinkie/button/graphic resources.
(As this page gets more crowded, I may have to move the less important resources to a new page... but that's an undertaking for another day...)
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Table of contents:
Stuff for the "conglang" community, or for anyone else with an interest in linguistics. Less scientific stuff is under "Words, Wordplay, and Puzzles".
The list of resources from r/conlangs. More geared towards conlangers, but can be helpful for non-conlangers as well. Includes both basic and more specialized resources, as well as links to helpful books, YouTube channels, other communities, etc.
Another existing list of resources from lingweenie.org (William S. Annis). Useful, but probably not beginner-friendly.
A glossary of linguistics terms. Also linked on r/conlangs, but this is my resource page and I want it here.
Index Diachronica, a big searchable list of sound changes in natural languages.
The Pink Trombone (or, rather, demos of and links to it), a simulator of the human vocal tract.
jsSyntaxTree, a site for making syntax trees.
This IPA character picker. You can type characters by clicking them, or by typing similar-looking characters followed by a number (for example, typing a suggests a, æ, ɐ, ɑ, and ɒ).
Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit. Make sure to check out his phonology builder, word generator, and sound change applier.
Monke, another word generator.
Lexurgy, another sound change applier.
How to create a language, by Pablo David Flores.
A tutorial from fridaynightlinguistics.org, originally for use in a college class.
The "so you want to create a conlang" page from TVTropes.
A collection of Volapük resources, another on Jan van Steenbergen's site, an online Volapük dictionary, and one on Google Books.
The Novial Wikibooks course (contains a few minor mistakes), the Novial book on Google Books, the official Novial dictionary, a greatly IMPROVED version of the Novial dictionary, and a page on Novial on interlanguages.net.
The Interslavic portal, the main Interslavic site, and the Interslavic dictionary.
ithkuil.place, a site containing resources for Ithkuil v4 and v3 (as well as some for the first two Ithkuils), an Ithkuil v3 formative builder, and an Ithkuil v3 glossing tool.
Dr. Geoff Lindsey's website, where he occasionally makes blog posts about English phonetics. Also check out his YouTube channel.
The Eggcorn Database, a database of eggcorns.
Etymonline, a site that shows the origins of English words.
Information on Pittsburgh English, including interviews with speakers.
Here are some helpful resources from Neocities and elsewhere.
W3Schools, a site with plenty of instructions on various programming languages, including HTML and CSS.
Neocities starter pack by hellaonwheels, with several page templates.
Page templates by EGGRAMEN in a variety of styles.
Even more page templates by sadgrl.
And where to find them. Also check my blinkies page.
The Internet Archive, the end-all-be-all of online archives. Copyright may vary.
GifCities, an Internet Archive project of gifs from Geocities. Copyright may vary.
Project Gutenberg, a repository of free ebooks.
The Public Domain Review, reviewed in this article
LibriVox, an archive of public domain audiobooks.
Voleflix, a page on Vole.wtf displaying public domain movies.
Spooky Soundtrack, Halloween music and sound effects. Contains copyrighted material, and is thus NOT a free resource like most of the others on this list, but is here because it contains some cool stuff.
Freesound, a site for uploading and finding audio recordings. Copyright varies by sound; some require credit and others don't.
Over 5 GB of free drum samples. Speaking of samples, I'm not sure where to put this, but here's the Toby Fox Sample Sheet.
Sites that are random, useless, etc.
The Useless Web, a button that takes you to all kinds of useless websites.
Vole.wtf. I'm not sure how to describe this site, but it contains all kinds of useless stuff to check out.
Lazy Pyro's TTS demo page. Contains many text-to-speech models, including the ones from the now-long-gone VoiceForge.
Boil the Frog, a site that makes playlists that transition from one artist to another.
Songfacts.com, a site about song facts.
CodeParade, a site containing a few interactive neural networks that generate very poorly made human faces, fursonas, and a couple other things.
MyRetroTVs, a site that simulates watching TV from the 1950s to the 2000s.
Radiooooo, a similar site, for simulating listening to the radio in different places and times.
A repository of optical illusions. And another one.
Seventh Sanctum, a site containing random generators to inspire characters, stories, props, etc. Links to several other random generator sites as well.
Springhole.net has random generators too, and more — essays/tips on writing and roleplaying, discussions of logical fallacies, and a lot of other stuff.
ELIZA, the famous early chatbot.
Wordpet, another copycat, albeit a somewhat smarter one. Needs lots of text input to grow up healthy.
A page on Dungeons and Dragons alignments.
The Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute's categorization of consumer aesthetics.
The Lyttle Lytton Contest, a more concise (and still-running) successor to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
Wiktionary, an extremely useful dictionary that aims to contain etymologies, related words, usage examples, IPA transcriptions, etc. for as many languages as possible. I use this site a lot.
Forvo, the pronunciation dictionary. Contains audio clips of words and phrases in many languages from native speakers.
Graphemica, an index of Unicode characters. Contains all the graphemes you know and love. Useful for searching up letters you don't have on your keyboard.
Fun-with-words.com, a site about wordplay.
A list of pangrams in various languages.
Behind the Name, a name site that is, as far as I can tell, decently reliable. For historical names, see The Society for Creative Anachronism's name resources. To judge the likeliness of a name for Americans born between 1892 and 2017, see Adam Cadre's name page.
A list of literary devices and terminology.
The Phrontistery, a site full of rare and unusual words.
Words to Use, a thesaurus-like site that groups words by topic to help you find the mot juste you need. Not very good.
WordHippo, another thesaurus-type site. I don't know how good it is.
Cryptic crossword clue types from crosswordunclued.com.
Lovatts daily cryptic crosswords. Not the best, as they seem to be randomly generated from pre-written clues, and it's possible to see the same clue, with the same answer, in multiple puzzles. The occasional cricket reference or bit of Australian slang may trip you up, but the wordplay tends to be fairly straightforward. If a whole crossword is too intimidating, try the quiz version; I'm not sure if it uses the same pool of clues, but if not, they're a similar level of difficulty/complexity.
Cipher encoders/decoders from rumkin.com. Includes both substitution ciphers and more complicated ones.
Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks, and Conundrums (1914).
Myoats, a site for drawing things with radial symmetry.
Silk, a similar site to Myoats.
A site for making flags, at least ones that consist of stripes.
Thirty Dollar Website, a site for remixing meme sounds.
Virtual Piano, and a virtual bandura for good measure.
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