Useful resources

[vijayjohn]

We do have a bunch of threads where some of us have at least posted language-specific resources we find useful, but we don't have a generic thread for useful resources. I was just looking over at the "useful links" thread on French forum and thought maybe we could start something like that here, too. However, I thought we could make it for all South Asian languages rather than any particular language especially since there are resources that include information in multiple such languages.

I guess I'll start out with this as a small list. I didn't realize just how many great resources have already been listed in this forum until I started looking!

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/ - online (if rather old) dictionaries for several South Asian languages
https://www.dkagencies.com/ - online bookstore with resources for learning various Indian languages
https://www.kapruka.com/dictionary/EnglishToSinhala.jsp - English-Tamil-Sinhala dictionary

https://malayalam.la.utexas.edu/resources/textbooks/ - Malayalam: A University Course and Reference Grammar available for free with audio
https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/malayalam/ - videos in Malayalam for students
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsKnxn ... fNw/videos - YouTube channel with a few videos for learning a few phrases in Malayalam
https://www.youtube.com/c/LearnMalayalamwithEliKutty - Elikutty's YouTube channel for learning Malayalam
A few more videos for learning Malayalam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdImOuYpnqU

http://www.thetamillanguage.com/les.html - Tamil Language in Context
http://www.tamilvu.org/ - rich site with many lessons for learning Tamil
http://www.learntamil.com/ - another resource for learning Tamil
http://www.kidsone.in/tamil/ - kids' resource for learning Tamil
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/ - yet another online resource for learning Tamil
https://archive.org/details/progressivegramm00ardeiala - A progressive grammar of Tamil, courtesy of archive.org
http://web.archive.org/web/200710050505 ... p/ztm1.htm - archived version of ukindia's resource for learning Tamil script
http://omniglot.com/writing/tamil.htm - Omniglot's resource on the Tamil script
https://www.amazon.com/Reference-Gramma ... 927&sr=1-1 - Tamil grammar available on Amazon
https://www.youtube.com/user/desidame4eva#p/u - YouTube channel for learning Tamil
http://www.noolagam.com/ - resource for kids learning(?) Tamil

https://kannadakalike.org/ - good resource for learning Kannada
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/kannada/ - six lessons for Kannada; transcription does not always match script
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCirKrU ... twEWCObTbw - a YouTube channel for learning Kannada
Two YouTube video series for learning Kannada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maa6_dQp-Ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOdlM3yaxnk

https://archive.org/details/grammaroftululan00briguoft - A Grammar of the Tulu Language
Video series for learning Tulu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4bHwdYeDSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVE92KCoDSc

http://www.koshur.org/courses.html - a useful website for learning Kashmiri
https://koausa.org/site/ - Kashmiri news site
http://www.kashmirilanguage.com/ - resources for Kashmiri including books and songs

[OiJoua]

Thanks, this is a good list of resources!

Here's another site for South Asian languages: LanguagesHome. There are only a few phrases for each language and I'm sure the quality varies, but they do have some harder-to-find Indian languages with audio, like Bagri, Mundari, and several of the Naga languages (in addition to all the official languages of India).

[vijayjohn]

Thanks!

https://forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?f=130&t=40941 - lessons on this forum for Malayalam

https://forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php ... 0#p1140993 - notes on Jeseri on this forum

https://forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?f=130&t=59884 - explanations on this forum for YouTube videos about some nonstandard language varieties spoken in and around Kerala
https://forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php ... 0#p1160246 - a few notes on some Dravidian languages
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix: ... _languages - basic vocabulary (Swadesh lists) for Dravidian languages

https://forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?f=130&t=43487 - lessons on this forum for Telugu
http://soyouwanttolearnalanguage.googlepages.com/telugu - list of resources for Telugu
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =17&t=6602 - list of resources for Telugu
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_t ... .H550_1991 - primer in Telugu characters
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/co ... =ED152110- Peace Corps Telugu textbook
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/co ... o=ED113928 - An Introduction to Spoken Telugu
http://www.eemaata.com/em/intro-eemaata - Telugu literary e-zine
http://www.teluguworld.org/ - Telugu World
http://pages.tvunetworks.com/watchTV/#c=640 - live TV in Telugu
http://watch.squidtv.net/asia/india.html#03 - live TV in Telugu
http://www.learningtelugu.org/ - Telugu lessons with audio
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.371094 - e-book for learning Telugu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FSJKyBZPAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmhPqVEFwaY

[księżycowy]

Just found this Kannada textbook/grammar: https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catal ... 36?lang=en

[OiJoua]

Sanskrit for Beginners
The Little Red Book of Sanskrit Paradigms
Amarahasa

India Languages Forums (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit and more)

LearnPunjabi.org
Punjabi dictionary with Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi
A Start in Punjabi
Punjabi Class Period (videos)