Books

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A collection of books about writing, language, linguistics and related topics gathered together in one place for your convenience. By buying something here you'll be helping to support this site.

Writing systems, written language, calligraphy and reading

Writing systems, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Mayan, Ogham, Runes, Shorthand, Numbers and numerals, Calligraphy, Punctuation, Reading

Language and languages

Origins of language, Language and languages, Learning languages, Idioms, Language extinction, Bilingualism / Multilingualism, Translation and Interpretation, Algonquian languages, Celtic languages, English, Germanic languages, Romance languages, Slavic languages, Turkic languages, Constructed languages

Linguistics

Linguistics, Phonetics & Phonology, Paleolinguistics

Language learning materials (courses, dictionaries, etc)

For popular languages, such as French, Spanish and German, numerous courses and other materials are available, and for these languages I have selected materials I know to be good and/or that have received good reviews. For lesser-studied languages, I have listed all the materials I can find.

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Basque, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese/Myanmar, Cambodian, Cantonese, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese, Classical Chinese, Cornish, Cree, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Gothic, Greek (Modern), Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hokkien, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Mandarin Chinese, Manx (Gaelic), Māori, Mayan, Mongolian, Nahuatl, Norwegian, Occitan, Old Church Slavonic, Old English, Old Norse, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Rapa Nui, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Serbian, Shanghainese, Sicilian, Sindarin, Sinhala, Sioux (Lakota/Dakota), Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu

Language learning software

Multilingual language-learning software
Find the best language programs

Constructed languages

Esperanto, Klingon, Tolkien's languages (Quenya, Sindarin, etc)

Books translated into many different languages

Alice in Wonderland, Asterix, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Tintin, Winnie the Pooh

Bilingual children's books

Other topics

Human Evolution, Travel books featuring languages

If you would like to recommend any books, dictionaries, language courses, CDs or other items which do not already appear here, please write to: feedback[at]omniglot.com

Please note

None of the items listed in this bookstore are supplied by Omniglot. When you click on the links here you will be taken to other websites where you can buy the items. If you have any questions about your orders or purchases, please contact the relevant company, not Omniglot.

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