Linguistic Bibliography – Contributor Tools
The "classification remarks" below explain a number of concepts that sometimes lead to confusion.
Classification
Classification - remarks
The following lists contain the keywords now in use in LB and, for your information, a short document on the changes made recently. In case you would like to have a concept added or withdrawn, please add your suggestions to your contribution.
Subject keywords - alphabetically
Subject keywords - thematically
Hierarchical structure of subject keywords
Recent changes in keywords 2011
For a number of complex language families the individual languages are listed in the documents below. Each language name contains a reference to its grouping within the LB classification scheme.
Australian languages - alphabetically
Australian languages - genetically
Austronesian languages - partial list
Languages of North America
Languages of Meso-America
Languages of South America
Modern Arabic dialects
Mongolic languages
Oceanic languages - genetically
Tibeto-Burman languages - alphabetically
Tibeto-Burman languages - genetically
The following documents contain a detailed style-sheet for LB contributions and transcription standards for some non-Latin scripts.
Instructions for LB-contributors
Instructions - examples
Cyrillic for Slavic languages
Georgian
Hebrew
Korean
The following list contains the abbreviations allowed for use in editorial text.
Abbreviations
