Languages
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This page contains links to resources for those interested in languages spoken in Latin America. If you are looking for study abroad sources, please see our Language Programs page. For more reference sources, particularly dictionaries, please see our Reference page. For additional resources related to indigenous languages and cultures, please visit our Indigenous Peoples page. For links to lesson plans and other language instruction materials, take a look at the Primary & Secondary Education page, particularly its Language Instruction section.
Languages
Aymara
- Aymara language course University of Chicago
- Aymara Uta Lenguaje, Cultura e Historia
- Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara ILCA, La Paz, Bolivia
- Lenguas y Culturas de Chile
- Logical and Linguistic Problems of Social Communication with the Aymara People Iván Guzmán de Rojas
Creole & Patois
- Haitian Creole Dictionary
- Papiamentu Tourism Corporation of Bonaire
- Rasta/Patois Dictionary Jamaica
Guarani
- Diccionario Electrónico Trilingüe Guaraní, Alemán, Español
- Guarani Ñanduti Rogue Guarani Paraguayo
- Guarani Raity
Mapuche Language
Mayan Languages
- Mayan Epigraphic Database Project MED
- Yucatec Maya Program Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies
Nahuatl
- Brief Notes on Classical Nahuatl
- Tlahui Guide Nahuatl and Aztec Culture
Portuguese
- Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa
- Dicionário de Folclore para Estudantes
- Nossa Língua Portuguesa TV Cultura
- Países e Comunidades de Língua Portuguesa Geografia da Língua Portuguesa no Mundo
- Portuguese Tongue Twisters
- Sonia Portuguese
- Tá Falado Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish
Quechuan
- A Few Words on Quechua Mark Rosenfelder
- Asociación de Investigadores en Lengua Quechua ADILQ
- Curso de Quechua Red Científica Peruana, RCP
- Diccionario Quechua
- Quechua Lesson Index
Spanish
- Asociación de Centros de Idiomas Argentina
- Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents California State University, San Marcos
- Conjugation Trainer
- El Español de América
- EspañOlé
- Gramática y ortografía
- Idioma Español
- Instituto Cervantes
- Learn Spanish
- Lengua Española
- MundoHispano Spanish Language Learning
- Newen Escuela de español
- Palabra del Día
- Real Academia Española
- Spanish Resources
- Unidad en la Diversidad Servicio informativo sobre la lengua española
Dialects & Slang
Sranan
International Resources
- Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America AILLA
- Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition CARLA
- Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America LLILAS, UT Austin
- Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
- Center for World Indigenous Studies CWIS
- Ethnologue Database
- I Love Languages
- Less Commonly Taught Languages Project LCTL of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, CARLA, University of Minnesota
- Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas SSILA
- Web of On-line Dictionaries