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Behind the Name: Etymology and History of First Names

Gives the history behind first names from England, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Iran, Turkey, India, some parts of Africa, and a number of other countries. Also covers Arabic names, biblical names, and mythological names.

01-12-2007 : african, albanian, arabic, arabic names, armenian, azerbaijani, basque, biblical names, breton, bulgarian, catalan, chinese, cornish, corsican, czech and slovak, danish, dutch, england, english, esperanto, estonian, etymologies, finnish, first names, france, french, frisian, galician, german, germany, great britain, greek, hawaiian, hungarian, icelandic, igbo, india, indian, iran, iranian, ireland, irish, italian, italy, japanese, jewish, kazakh, khmer, korean, kurdish, latvian, lithuanian, macedonian, manx, maori, modern english, mythological names, names, native american, north korea, norwegian, polish, portuguese, provencal, romanian, russian, scottish, serbian and croatian, slovene, south korea, spain, spanish, swedish, thai, traditional english, turkey, turkish, ukrainian, united kingdom, vietnamese, welsh, yoruba

Non-English Online Bible Resources

Has Bibles in a number of languages.

12-27-2006 : amarhic, arabic, bengali, bibles, cebuano, chinese, croatian, czech, dutch, ewe, farsi, french, german, hiligaynon, hindi, hungarian, italian, japanese, kannada, korean, kurdish, luo, malayalam, ndebele, nepali, norwegian, persian, polish, portuguese-brazilian, portuguese-european, romanian, russian, slovak, spanish, spanish-castillian, swedish, telugu, thai, urdu, vietnamese

BBC: Languages

Resources for learning French, German, Spanish, and Italian, including sound files, vocabulary lists, quizzes, and cultural notes. Additional resources for some other languages and holiday phrases in 34 languages.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)

11-10-2006 : albanian, belarusian, bosnian, bulgarian, chinese, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, estonian, finnish, flemish, french, german, greek, hungarian, icelandic, italian, japanese, languages, latvian, lithuanian, luxembourgish, macedonian, moldovan, norwegian, polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, turkish, ukrainian, welsh

Travlang: Translating Dictionaries

Translating dictionaries in over 35 languages.

11-09-2006 : albanian, arabic, armenian, azeri, bosnian, bulgarian, chinese, croatian, czech, danish, dictionaries, dutch, english monolingual, estonian, finnish, french, german, greek, hebrew, hungarian, indonesian, italian, japanese, korean, languages, latin, latvian, linguistics, lithuanian, norwegian, persian (farsi), polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, thai, translations, travel languages, turkish, ukrainian, vietnamese, yiddish

Ethnomusicology

11-08-2006 : aboriginal arnhem land music, afgani rebab, afghanistan, african, african american, afrocuban, aissaoua, albamuzika albania, algerian, anatolia, ancient music of ireland, anglo-american folksong, arab, arabian gulf and saudi arabia, armenian duduk, asia, asian music, australian bush music, austrian, bagpipe music, balinese, balkans, ballads, bamboo music, basque, berimbau, bhangra, bharatanatyam, brazilian, british irish american english folk music, bukidnons of mindanao, cambodian performing arts, candombe, capoeira, caribbean, celtic lyrics, central american, china, chinese, country dance and song, crete, croatian, croats, cuba, dance, dancing and dance music, dastgah, dastgah e maho, decima and rumba iberian, denmark, djembe, dominica, drumming, drums, ean musical instruments, east african, eastern europe, eastern music, egyptian, ethnomusicology, europe, finland, finnish, flamenco, folk australia, france, french, gagaku, ghana, gnaoua, guqin silk string zither, guyana, haiti, harps, hue and tai tu music of viet nam, hungarian, indian, iranian, irish music, islam, japan, jembe, jewish and muslim, jewish music research center, kandas, kashmiri music, kavals and dzamares end-blown flutes of greece and macedonia, kenya, kenyah and punan, kiosks tanzanian, koshur mausiquee, kwayas, latin america, latin music, latvian ethnomusicology, lebanon, madunia, manding, maori, mediterranean, melhun, merengue, mexico, middle east, mongolian, moroccan andalusi music, moroccan music, mris dancing, mundo etnico, muslims, native american, native american music, near east, new zealand, north africa, north korea, nyckelharpa, oceania, ohwejagehka iriquois earth songs, okinawan, omaha indian music, oral mashriq, pacific, papua new guinea, percussion, persian, philippine islands, popular instruments, punjabi, reggae, ritual-festivals--vietnam, romanian, romica puceanu, russia, saami chant, sabar, sacred harp singing, salsa, samba, saramusik, sarawak sape borneo, scots, scottish, setar, shakuhachi, siberian music, south america, south korea, sudan, sufi, swedish, swiss, switzerland, tabla site, tango, taqasim, tejendra narayan majumdar, the baglama, the launeddas sardinia, throat singing, timba, tradisom, traditional music, turkey, turkish, tuvan, umm kulthumn, upper oyapock, uraguay, west south, wojb ojibway, wongawilli style, zither

Transparent Language

11-08-2006 : afrikaans, albanian, arabic, asturian, aymara, azerbaijani, basque, belarussian, bemba, bengali, blackfoot, brazilian, breton, bulgarian, canadian, catalan, cebuano, chamro, chinese, cornish, croatian, culture, czech, danish, dutch, ecuadorian, english, esperanto, estonian, faroese, farsi, finnish, flemish, french, frisian, galician, german, greek, guarani, haitian creole, hawaiian, hebrew, hindi, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, inuktitut, irish, italian, japanese, kongo, korean, language learning, languages, latin, latvian, lithuanian, luganda, luxembourgish, macedonian, malay, maori, maya, mohawk, moralagasy, nahuatl, norwegian, papago, phrase books, pidgin english, polish, polyglot glossaries, portuguese, provencal, quechua, romanian, romansch, romany, ruanda, russian, samoan, scottish, sepedi, serbian, shona, sicilian, slovak, slovene, somali, sotho, spanish, swahili, swazi, swedish, tagalog, tahitian, thai, tongan, travel, tswana, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, urdu, vietnamese, welsh, wolof, xhosa, yiddish, yuba, zulu

Footnotes to History

11-07-2006 : abaco, abalonia, abkhaz, abkhazia, aceh, acla, acre, addu, afar, afrikaner, agni, agricultural, aires, airrecu, ajaristan, akhzibland, alamut, aland, alandoerna, alans, alashan, alawites, albazin, alcatraz, alitao, aloquituche, altai, altos, amaro, ambon, amelia, american, amuntai, ancash, anglo-corsican, angoche, anguilla, anjouan, antarctique, antioquia, anyidi, apalachicola, arab, arakan, ararat, araucania, ariari, armenia, arotirene, artists', artsakh, aryan-pacific, assam, assassins, association, asturias, athos, atlantis, atoll, auca, ausonia, australia, austriens, autonomous, awdal, azawad, azerbaijan, babbio, bactria, badakhshan, bahia, baja, baku, balubas, baluchistan, bantustans, barataria, barga, bashkiria, basilio, basters, bat, bavaria, bayano, beaver, beggars, belem, belussian, bendery, bene, benin, berbers, bessarabia, biafra, biaknabato, bihac, blas, bluefields, bobbio, bodoland, bolivar, bom, bophuthatswana, border, bosnia-hercegovina, bosnia-herzegovina, bougainville, bowling, brcko, brhood, buenos, buganda, buhtan, bukovina, bulgars, bumba, buraco, burma, burmese, buryatia, cabinda, cadiz, caledonia, california, callaway, cambodia, cameroons, cancuc, canje, cansiglio, canudos, caprivi, caqueta, caribbea, carlota, carnia, caroline, carpatho-ukraine, cartagena, carthage, casamance, casanare, casbah, cassamoukou, catalan, catalonia, catarinan, caucasian, caucasus, ceno, cental, centro-caspian, cerca, ceylon, chad, chakma, champa, chan, chao, charlesfort, checheniia, chechnya, cherkessy, cherokees, chiang, chiapas, chinese, chios, chiquito, chita, chittagong, chongqing, christiania, chuang, chukotka, chungking, chuquisaca, circassia, cisalpine, ciskei, cispadane, city, coast, cobre, cocos islands, cofradia, colombia, colony, commune, conch, confederacy, confederal, confederated, confederation, connecticut, contestado, coro, corsica, cospaia, costa-, counani, council, counties, countries, county, courland, cracow, creek, crete, crimea, cristobal, croix, cruz, cuckfield, cuenca, cundinamarca, cunha, cyprus, cyrenaica, d'asile, d'enza, dagestan, dakota, dambrugana, danzig, darfur, darien, darul, dauria, dega-cham, delta, democratic, denakils, deseret, dhofar, dictatship, dinkas, district, ditmarschen, ditmarsh, djukas, dniester, dniestr, dogs, dominion, don-caucasus, druzes, duda, dumpling, east timor, eastern, edo, ekaterinodar, eleuthera, embassy, empire, enenkio, epirus, equator, espiritu, estonia, ethnic regions, euskadi, euzkadi, ezo, faeroe, falashas, far, federal, federated, federation, federative, fergana, fernandina, first, fiume, flanders, floating, florida, forces, former nations, fort, foundation, france, francisco, frankland, franklin, fredonia, free, fremont, french, friuli, fujian, fukien, gabriel, gagauz, galicia, gallic, galveston, ganienkeh, geralia, gilan, girokaster, gno-badakhshan, gold, gongosa, gosha, goshen, gothia, government, graaff-reinet, granada, granadine, grande'anse, greater, grebo, greco-poland, green, greytown, guangxi, guayabera, guayaquil, guizhou, guriia, gymreig, ha-mi, haiti, hanseatic, hatay, hawai'i, hawaii, hawera, hay-on-wye, heavenly, herzog-bosna, hetmanate, high, hijaz, history, hnachero, hokianga, holland, honsawatoi, hospitaller, host, hottentots, hre, hsat, hui, hulunbuir, hunan, hutt, hyderabad, icaria, iceland, ichkeriya, idel-ural, igbo, ijaws, ili, im, imperia, inca, independent, indian, indonesian, ingermanland, ingria, ingushetia, inner, ionian, ireland, irregular, ishmaelites, islamic, islands, isles, israel, isthmus, italien, jabaquara, jalisco, jaluit, james, jebel, jefferson, jesus, jiangxi, jiti, johanna, john, jones, jose, jubaland, jubbaland, junagadh, jura, justus, kachin, kadesh, kaffa, kaifeng, kalakuta, kalat, kalgan, kalimantan, kalmykia, kanaki, kansas, karabakh, karachai-balkaria, karachay, karakum, kareka, karelia, karenni, karens, kasai, kashgaria, katanga, kawthoolei, kayans, kca, kce, kentucky, key, khalistan, khanate, khazars, khobdo, khotan, kiangsi, kingdom, klipdrift, knee, knights, kobdo, kokand, kosakenland, kosovo, krai, krajina, kuban, kumul, kunas, kurdish, kurdistan, kwangsi, kwazulu, kweichow, lahu, lake, langhe, lanzo, latakia, latvia, league, left, lega, leninabad, leon's, libertatia, lijdensrust, lijien, limon, litbel, lithuania-byelussia, logone, lombard, long, los, lower, lozi, luba, lubicon, lundy, lusatia, macaco, macanga, madagascar, madawaska, madiun, madre, maganja, magdalena, mahabad, mainz, maira, majeerteens, makira, mali, malta, maltese, maluku, manchuria, mangup, maniel, manitoba, mapuche, maracassume, mariquita, markovo, marlbough, maroons, marquetalia, mary's, maryland-in-africa, massangano, massingire, matuna, mauretania, mecklenburg, meekamuii, mejertin, melchizedek, meng, merida, metis, mexico, michigan, micronations, military, mindanao, minerva, mining, mirdita, mirdite, miskito, missy-aux-bois, misurata, mizam, mohawk, moheli, moldavian, moluccas, mompos, mon, monferrato, mongolian, montagnards, montefiino, morac-songhrati-meads, moresnet, moros, mosquitia, mosquito, moss, mount, mountaineers, mountainous, mucajuba, mugeres, muscongus, muskogee, mustang, mwali, nacogdoches, nagaland, nagno-karabakh, nagriamel, nan, nassau, natal, natchez, nation, national, nd-ouest, ndalbingia, negara, negros, negua, nero's, neutral, new, newfoundland, ngatik, nghe-tinh, niger, nile, ningxia, nizhneudinsk, north, north-peruvian, northern, nosi, novossiisk, noxchijn, nte, nyja, nzwani, oaxaca, ochirbat's, ocoyta, oglala, ogonis, oirats, orange, orientale, ossetia, ossetian, ossola, outer, pa-o, padania, palenque, palmares, panama, papua, paradise, parihaka, paris, parma, patani, pato, paz, people's, persian, peru-bolivia, philippines, phoenix, pictish, piratini, plateaus, poland, poloni, port, priamur, principality, protectate, providence, provinces, provisional, puerto, puntland, pushtunistan, quilombo, rabat, rainbow, ralik, ranter, ras-al-khaimah, raterepublik, rauracian, ready, real, recife, red, redonda, regreg, rehoboth, republica, republics, revolutionary, rhenish, rhineland, rhodanic, rhode, rico, rif, right, rijeka, rio, river, rohinga, romanian, rome, rooigrond, roses, rotuma, rough, royal, rupununi, russian, ruthenia, ruwenzururu, saarland, sabinada, saint-moralo, sakha, sale, salihiyah, sallee, salvador, samos, sanaguere, santa, santarem, santo, sanusiyah, sanwi, saramacas, sarawak, saugeais, saxony, sbs, sealand, sebga, second, sedang, senegambian, septinsular, serbian, seven, shaba, shahar, shandong, shantung, siberia, sichuan, sicily, sierra, sikhs, sikkim, sioux, slovakia, socialist, solomons, solon, somalia, somaliland, sona, sonderbund, south-peruvian, southeastern, southern, southwestern, soutpansberg, sovereignty, soviet, spratly, srpska, states, stellaland, stream, sudanese, sultanate, sumapaz, suvadiva, syria, syunik, szechwan, taalex, tafea, tagalog, taiping, taiwan, taleh, taluga, talysh-mugan, tana, tangier, tanna, tannu, tarangambadi, taro, tasba, tatar, tatarstan, tatu, taurida, tavolara, tejas, terek-dagestan, territory, texas, thessalonica, third, tierra, tigre, timor-leste, tiraspol, tisquisio, tolu, tomochic, topasses, toro, tortonese, tortuga, township, tranquebar, trans-dniestr, transbaikal, transcarpathia, transcaspia, transcaucasia, transkei, transnistria, transpadane, transylvania, travance, tri-insula, tribes, trieste, trinidad, triple, tripolitania, tripuram, tristan, tuaregs, tule, tunganistan, tunglan, tungus, turcomanistan, turkestan, turkish, turkmenistan, tuva, tyrol, ubyorkhs, ukraine, ukrainian, ulan, union, united, upingtonia, urals, urga, urganchai, utopia, valais, valley, valli, valsesia, van, varaita, varlberg, varzi, vemarana, venda, venezia-giulia, vermont, vigan, vilcabamba, villarica, vio-epirus, vladivostok, voisko, volga, votrekker, wake, wales, walker, watauga, welsh, wends, western, westerwold, westland, westralia, wexfd, whiskey, william, winburg, winneconne, winston, wladfa, wounded, wyoming, yakutia, yamen, yanga's, yapti, york, yucatan, yunnan, zacatecas, zandt, zanj, zanzibar, zapozhian, zaragoza, zealand, zone, zoutpansberg, zulus

Basic Phrases for Eastern European Languages

Basic phrases from Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, and Slovenian. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)

11-06-2006 : albanian, bulgarian, central and eastern european languages, croatian, czech, estonian, europe, european studies, hungarian, languages, latvian, lithuanian, polish, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovenian, tourism, translated phrases

MythHome

Has Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and myths by culture or region

10-19-2006 : aboriginal, african, ama-arhus, amasagnul, ancient persian-zasterian, anshar, antu, anu, anunitu, arawaks, armenian, ashur, asian, assyrian, assyrian deities: adad, atrahasis, australia, avestae, babylonian, babylonian: a-a (aya) adarmmelech, basque, bel, caribs, celtic, central american, chaldean, chimn, chinese deities, creation myths, dreamtime, egyptian, epic flood myths, epic of kings: a persian story, evil eye, gilgamesh epic, greco-roman, greek gods, hammurabi laws, hawaiian, hindu religions, hittite, hungarian mythology, indian, indonesian, kishar ansar. kisar, kundalini, lamassu, mah, malayan, maori, middle eastern, middle eastern ancient deities, moche, mutu, mythology, nazcas, new zealand, nordic, north american, pazuzu, persian, philippino, phoenician, romanian, semite, south america: chavin, south american, south seas, sulmanu, sumerian, syrian, the enuma elish babylonian creation story, tiahnanaco, vietnamese, yuba, zaster

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