Languages of the Middle East

Arabic

• LANGUAGES ON THE WEB: BEST ARABIC LINKS
• Arabic Study Programs in the Arab World [MESA]
• Arabic language
• Language and Art resources (Muslim Students Association, University of Buffalo)
• Islamic Calligraphy
• Arabic Calligraphy
• The Nature of Old Arabic and its Change into Middle and then Modern Arabic
• Arabic Linguistics Society Bibliography
• BBC Arabic Service

• Ethnologue Database, Arabic
• "The Arabic Language: Its Place in the Middle East's Culture and Politics," / Curtis F. Jones, American Diplomacy, August 16, 2002
• SemArch -- Semitisches Tonarchiv Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients Semitistik

• Arabic Insta-Class Page / SCOLA
• Arabesk studies in Damascus
• Arabization / EduMagic
• Arabic Tutor
• Toronto Shariah Program
• Hypercard Stack for Learning Arabic Language
• Let's Learn Arabic (by Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania)
• Quest Multimedia
• My Arabic Teacher™
• Arabic Language Programs (USA)
• Arabic programs in the world
• Learning Arabic in Syria
• The Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF)
• Mastering Arabic's Nuances No Easy Mission (Washington Post, Tuesday, May 28, 2002; Page A09)
• The National Capital Language Resource Center : bi-lingual Arabic/English newsletter for Arabic K-12 teachers.
• The ArabAcademy: "world's leading provider of onlineArabic language courses and proficiency tests"

• An Explanation about Arabic Character Sets

See also: Software, Hardware & Computing Resources

• The American Association of Teachers of Arabic
• Arabic Study Programs in the Arab World [MESA]
• Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) (The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies)
• Sakkal: Arabic and Islamic Art, Arabic Calligraphy, Graphic and Web Design, Clip Art, Computer Illustration

ASSYRIAN

• Assyrian Information Medium Exchange
• Beth Suryoyo Assyrian

KURDISH

• Kurdish(Association for Persian Logic, Language & Computing)
• Ethnologue Database: Kurdish

MALTESE

• Ethnologue Database: Maltese

Pashto

• Resources for Pashto Language

PERSIAN
(Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian)

• Language and Art Resources
• A bilingual Persian text viewer Persian-English (Stanford University)
• Foundation for Iranian Studies
• Linguistics
• Eurofarsi Convention (This independent scientific and cultural center advocates a changeover from the present Arabic-based Farsi alphabet and script to Latin.)

Syriac/Aramaic

• Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
• Western Neo-Aramic

Turkish

• Turkish-Ottoman
• Turkish Language & Literature & Turkish Fonts
• Start Learning Turkish Today!
• The Turkish Language / Turkish Ministry Of Foreign Affairs

Other Languages & Dialects

• Judeo-Berber
• Laz (Turkey)
• Ethnologue Database: Judeo-Persian

Middle East & Islamic Studies, http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/

Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer.