Re: IPA language phonology

Samuel Rivier wrote:


>Hey guys- does anyone know any sites where there is a
>complete IPA listing of the phonology of many
>(hopefully most) languages?
Not online to my knowledge, but a good univ. library ought to have:  Charles
F. Hockett, "A Manual of Phonology", publ. in the 50s or 60s as a supplement
to the International Jnl. of American Linguistics.  Aside from listing the
phonological systems of many many languages, he doesn't, alas, go into much
further detail.
One would hope there is something more recent.

Oh-- another one, from the same era, and much more detailed though
old-fashioned "phonemics"-- Voegelin & Voegelin, Languages of the world,
publ. IIRC in fascicles, again by the IJAL.  Grammatical analyses too.
Their work kindof depended on what foreign students were available at
Indiana at the time.


>Pushing my luck, does anyone know any sites where
>there is a linguistic analysis of many (again,
>hopefully most) languages?
The Voegelins' work, as above; there was also a "Languages of the World" or
possibly "Les Langues du Monde"-- a huge 1 or 2 vol work produced in the
30s? and updated.  The compilers were French; if memory serves one of them
was Meillet.  Even in the early 70s, when I was in grad school, it seemed
outdated-- though intrinsically interesting of course.

Well, I'm dating myself........As for online resources, try google.com,
search for individual language names, but be prepared for lots of junk stuff
(handy phrases for tourists, and the like. "Sumerian" leads to some wild
places.).  If something useful doesn't turn up in the first 20 or so refs,
don't bother with the remaining 2000.