"nsd" points to two audio archives. First, from the British Library, a collection of more than 100 recordings of English dialects. among them Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland. Second, various scholars read passages from Geoffrey Chaucer, both The Canterbury Tales and other works.

posted: 11:03:16 PM  

Ethnologue is an interesting resource for information about the world's currently spoken languages. It can come in handy if you need to know something about Asturian ("As different from Spanish as Galician or Catalan; more different than Murcian and Andalusian.") or E (spoken by 30,000 in China). A special section highlights the 400 or so languages that are nearly extinct.

posted: 11:26:26 AM