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General Sites About Linguistics, with links elsewhere

• Robert Beard's site at Bucknell with some fun items and links to other sites.
• Copley's Linguistics Page at MIT, similar to Beard's only different.
• Ethnologue Language Families Page, an invaluable Web tool for exploring the interrelations of languages.
• The Human Languages Page by Tyler Chambers, one of the most extensive and long-established linguistics sites.
• The LINGUIST List offers links to pages about languages and language families.
• Patrick Ryan's Proto-Language home page; devoted to theories about the reconstruction of a single original human language, this is a well-done page with links to fascinating speculative scholarship.
• The Summer Institute of Linguistics main page, which leads to Ethnologue (above) and much else.
• The Universal Survey of Languages, which gives basic information on many modern languages (and some invented ones).
• Maricopa Community College Exploration of Language self-paced introduction to linguistics.
• Computational Historical Linguistics Project at the University of Pennsylvania. This project uses quantitative data to reconstruct relationships among languages; it's technical, but well worth a look.
• Abdelouahid Zaid's page of resources in linguistics has many definitions and suggested readings.
• A paper by Rick Horowitz on issues in language change and language contact.
• A paper on the history of historical linguistics by Steen Schousboe.
• Emily's Guide to historical linguistics, part of a larger site.
• A Proto-Indo-European page.