General

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World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS): a database of structural properties of languages around the world. Includes a visualiser for where certain properties tend to occur.

Simon Roper (YouTube): videos on linguistics, especially historical linguistics and Germanic languages, as well as some philosophy and anthropology.

Dr Geoff Lindsey (YouTube): mostly phonology and (recent) sound change, and some sociolinguistics.

Documentation

The Lingua Descriptive Studies Questionnaire: a language documentation questionnaire. I use it for conlanging.

Phonology

Interactive IPA Chart

Speech Accent Archive: recordings and phonetic transcriptions of the same English passage recited by speakers of different linguistic backgrounds.

Searchable Index Diachronica: an index of documented sound changes across languages. There are a few issues with this, so it might be kind of iffy as a historical linguistics resource, but it's still a very good guide/inspiration if you're conlanging or learning about sound change in general.

TriSCA: a sound change applier.

Orthography

How to Create a Script: a beginner's resource for making conscripts, and how orthography works in general.

The World's Writing Systems: basic information (and links to further information) on every known writing system.

Semantics

Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications

Morphosyntax

Notes on Language Creation - Ergativity

Conlanging

Awkwords: a word generator (now hosted on a different site).

Monke: another word generator.

The Smiley Award: a (discontinued) award given to cool conlangs.

Language Creation Related Links