Promoting Community Languages  
   From the Welsh Language Board. Ideas and suggestions to agencies, groups or individuals who wish to promote the use of minority languages in their communities.
   http://www.cymuned.org.uk/

Language Policy Web Site  
   An exchange of news and views on English Only legislation, bilingual education, endangered languages and related issues of U.S. language policy.
   http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/

Social Factors  
   When two people speak with one another, there is always more going on than just conveying a message. The language used by the participants is always influenced by a number of social factors which define the relationship between the participants.
   http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/social.html

Language Futures Europe  
   Links to sites about multilingualism, language policy and the dominance of English in Europe.
   http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/eulang.html

Sociolinguistics - Concept of 'Language'  
   Need language be seen as a continuum of different accents, or as a fixed structure of rules? Undergraduate essay.
   http://www.chez.com/phiallfish/und_essays/Sociolings.html

Sociolinguistics Laboratory - University of Ottawa  
   Site details people, materials as well as past and ongoing research studies into results of language contact.
   http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~sociolx/

American Russian: An Endangered Language?  
   Article by Maria Polinsky discussing a case of language attrition.
   http://ling.ucsd.edu/~polinsky/pubs/american-russian.pdf

Sociolinguistics Quizzes  
   Questions to assess your comprehension of the various principles of sociolinguistics. Includes a reading list.
   http://arts-humanities.cant.ac.uk/Language-Studies/distance/SOCIO/MAP.HTM

American Dialect Society  
   Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
   http://www.americandialect.org/

Atlas of North American English  
   A survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English.
   http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html

North Carolina Language and Life Project  
   An organization performing research and leading educational programs in representative speech communities.
   http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/code/Research%20Sites/ncllp2.htm

My language  
   Mailing list about "unofficial" languages and varieties from Europe.
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/my-language

Language Varieties  
   Varieties of language that differ from the standard variety normally used in the media and taught in the schools.
   http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/

Dialect Survey Maps  
   Online pronunciation test and maps of answers.
   http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/maps.php

Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese  
   A survey on current issues regarding the Taiwanese writing system.
   http://ebook.de-han.org/attitude

Language and Nationalism in Asia  
   Research on language and orthographic reform in Han cultural sphere, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and China.
   http://www.de-han.org

Attitudes Toward Nonstandard Language in the Classroom  
   Compares attitudes of German-speaking and English-speaking students and teacher toward dialects of their language. Includes slide show and bibliography. Undergraduate honors thesis of Kendra Banks Perry.
   http://homepage.mac.com/bibliophiles/attitude.htm

The Global Language Monitor  
   Essays and articles on various linguistic topics, and an algorithmic analysis of political language use in the United States.
   http://www.languagemonitor.com/

Lingva Prismo  
   Promoting the concept of interlingualism (balancing language equality with effective communication), with language maps, quizzes, and information on world languages and writing systems. In English, Esperanto, and several European languages.
   http://lingvo.info/ligiloj/listo.php?lingvo=en

International Dialects of English Archive  
   A repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts.
   http://www.ku.edu/~idea/

PBS - Do You Speak American?  
   Companion material to a TV documentary examining the dynamic state of American (USA) English.
   http://www.pbs.org/speak/