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This list of Asian language resources includes: general resouces; lessons; pronunciation guides; online dictionaries; related software and fonts.

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Bengali
Burmese
Chinese
Farsi, Dari, Tajik
Filipino, Tagalog
Gujarati
Hindi
Hmong
Indonesian
Japanese
Javanese
Kazakh & Turkmen
Khmer (Cambodian)
Korean
Laotian
Malay 
Malayalam
Pali
Pashto
Punjabi
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Urdu
Vietnamese

 
 

Bengali Resources


Bengali Language and Literature

UK India Learn to Read Bengali

Virtual Bangladesh: English to Bengali Dictionary

Virtual Bangladesh: Survival Bengali : Transliteration
(pronunciation help)

Banga-Parichaya, Multimedia Introduction to Bengal

Bengali Fonts from the Yamada Language Center
 
 

Burmese Resources


Myanmar Language
General resources.

SEAsite Myanmar (Burma) language section

English-Burmese Dictionary
(under development–very few terms returned)

Alphabetic Characters of Myanmar Language

Burmese Fonts from the Yamada Language Center
 
 

Chinese Resources


Chinese Language Information Page
A navigation tool pointing to Chinese language related resources

Speaking Chinese

Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online

Marjorie Chan: Word List and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries
A listing of Mandarin Chinese and Japanese Glossaries/Dictionaries.

Chinalanguage
A site dedictated to all dialects of Chinese

On-line Chinese Tools
Learning tools for Mandarin

Chinese Pronunciation Guide
With RealAudio sound files

Chinese Character Pronunciations
Input (copy-and-paste) any Chinese text and obtain the
transliterated pronunciation of each Chinese character.

Travelang’s Mandarin Chinese Phonetics Pronunciation Guide

Chinese Fonts from the Yamada Language Center
 
 

Farsi, Dari, Tajik (Persian) Resources


Farsi-Persian Language

Kim’s (Very) Little English-Persian Dictionary

Teachionary: Farsi Word Sets
(not quite a dictionary)

Foreign Languages for Travelers’ Farsi Dictionary
(limited scope)

Foreign Languages for Travelers’ Farsi Pronunciation Guide
(limited scope)

Persian Teaching System

Gerdsooz-Persian script generator

Persian Fonts from the Yamada Language Center
 
 

Filipino, Tagalog, Kapampangan Resources


SEAsite Tagalog Language Home Page

Learn to Speak Kapampangan Page

Speak Tagalog

Learn to Speak Kapampangan
Tutorial under construction

Basic Cebuano or Visayan
Another language from the Philippines

Let’s Study Tagalog!

SEAsite Tagalog Onsite Dictionary

An English–Kapampangan-Pilipino Dictionary
Under construction – not in English

Learn to Speak Kapampangan Pronunciation Page

Speak Tagalog
 
 

Gujarati Resources


Ukindia-Learn to Read Gujarati
 
 

Hindi Resources


Hindi: The language of songs
An introduction to the Hindi language

Hindi Electronic Dictionary
from the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa

Hindi Alphabet
from University of Pennsylvania (RealVideo files)

Hindi/Urdu conversation lessons on the Web
at Syracuse University (.aif sound files)

SaralSoftware
Specializes in software about India
TrueType fonts in Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi and Tamil.

Bharatvani Devanagri Hindi Font for Windows

ITRANS
printing text in Indian Language Script

Iwrite32
a utility to write documents in Indian languages

Hindi Fonts from the Yamada Language Center
 
 

Hmong Resources


WWW Hmong Homepage

The Hmong’s Corner, Learning Center

Hmong Talking Dictionary
Requires a sound device that plays .au files

Hmong Pronunciation Guide
 
 

Indonesian Resources


SEAsite Indonesia
General Information on the Indonesia language

Kamus Indonesia-Inggris
(Bahasa Indonesian-English Dictionary)

English-Indonesian Online Dictionary

English-Indonesian Dictionary
Dutch Dictionary Project
 
 

Japanese Resources


Japanese Online
A language resource web site that includes lesson and a dictionary

The Japanese Language, by Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)
General Japanese language information

English-Japanese, Japanese-English Dictionary
From the Dutch Dictionary Project

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server
Requires a browser with a Japanese environment. Includes link for
software.

Jeffery’s Japanese-English Dictionary

Japanese Tutorial

Japanese fonts from the Yamada Language Center

UnionWay
A commercial software producer of Japanese, Chinese and Korean font softwares
 
 

Javanese


The "huruf jawa", the traditional Javanese alphabet

Javanese-Indonesian-English Dictionary
(under construction)
 

Kazakh and Turkmen


CenAsiaNet
Kazakh and Turkmen language learning video modules.
Cyrillic fonts and Quicktime player needed.



Khmer (Cambodian) Resources


Khmer
History of and pronunciation guide for Khmer.

Khmer Language Guide
(word list)

Khmer font from Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font Archive
 
 

Korean Resources


Hangul, the Korean Alphabet

An Introduction to Korean

Talking To Koreans
The Korean Program at Monash University, Australia.

Blue Dic
English to Korean dictionary

Hangul, the Korean Alphabet

Korean Fonts from the Yamada Language Center

Unicode Korean font

UnionWay
A commercial software producer of Japanese, Chinese and Korean font software
 
 

Laotian Resources


SEAsite Lao language
General Information on the Lao language

Laonet–Lao Script for Windows

Laotian Connection
More fonts

Laotian Fonts from the Yamada Language Center
 
 

Malay Resources

A Sampler of  Bahasa Malaysia
(sound files)

Malay-English Cyber-Dictionary

mirror site 1

mirror site 2
 
 

Malayalam Resources


Site on the Kerala region of India and its language, Malayalam
Kerala: God's own land!
 
 

Pali Resources


Pali Language Sources & Resources
General resources on Pali
http://www.transmillennium.net/pali/

Pali Language Sources & Resources
Pronunciation Guide
 
 

Pashto Resources


Pashto Dictionary
 
 

Punjabi Resources


Uk India, Learn to Read Punjabi
Punjabi lessons

Punjabi Network
Punjabi Language and Literature Literary Figures Profiles

Punjab Online
Punjabi pronunciation lessons

Free Punjabi Fonts by Hardip Singh Pannu
 
 

Tamil Resources


Web Assisted Learning and Teaching of Tamil

Tamil Electronic Library

Links and lessons in Tamil

English-Tamil Pedagogical Dictionary
at the University of Pennsylvania

Tamil-English Dictionary

Tamil Transliteration and Pronunciation Guide

Web Assisted Learning and Teaching of Tamil
Downloadable fonts and software

MURASU Tamil software solutions
Tamil Electronic Library links
Tamil Fonts, Software and File interconversion
 
 

Telugu Resources

Pothana Telugu Script Font
 
 

Thai Resources


SEASite’s Thai Language and Culture Learning Resources

Thai Internet Education Project Dictionary

Lexitron Thai-English Dictionary

Saikam Online Dictionary
Thai-Japanese-Thai Dictionary

Bannthai.com’s Thai Alphabet and fonts
Sound files

ZzzThai software package
Thai Students Association in Japan Under the Royal Patronage (TSAJ) at
 The University of Electro-Communications

Bannthai.com’s Thai Alphabet and fonts
Sound files

Internet Thailand Guide to Using Thai Fonts

SEAsite fonts for Thai, Burmese and Vietnamese
 
 

Tibetan Resources


Fluent Tibetan
An Interactive Tibetan Language Tutorial

Nitartha International. Tibetan-English Dictionary

Nitartha International
The Nitartha-Sambhota Tibetan language word processing system
 
 

Urdu Resources


Uk India - Learn to Read Urdu
Urdu lessons online.

English-Urdu Dictionary

Dinesh Prabhu's Urdu-English Dictionary

Hindi/Urdu conversation lessons on the Web
(.aif sound files)

Umair I font
from UrduWeb

Parsnegar Text Editor
from UrduWeb
(Shareware version)

CompCorp’s Urdu Text Editor

InPage Urdu
Page Layout software that handles Urdu, Arabic, Sindhi, Persian and English.
 
 

Vietnamese Resources


SEAsite Vietnamese Language site
Language lessons.

Vietnamese Online
General information and lessons.

KSVN English-Vietnamese Dictionary

Vietnamese Online: Pronunciation Guide

SEAsite Vietnamese Language site
Guide to Pronunciation

SEAsite fonts for Thai, Burmese and Vietnamese

Vietnamese font from the Yamada Language Center
 
 









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