Databases

• Glottolog

  "Comprehensive reference information for the world's languages, especially the lesser known languages"

• SIL Ethnologue

  "Explore the Languages of the World'

• WALS Online

  The World Atlas of Language Structures

Publicaties

Beekes (1990)

R. S. P. Beekes, Vergelijkende taalwetenschap.

Utrecht: Het Spectrum, 1990.

Brown e.a. (2008)

Keith Brown & Sarah Ogilvie (red.), Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World.

Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2008.

Comrie e.a. (1999)

Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews en Maria Polinsky, De grote taalatlas.

Haarlem: Schuyt & Co, 1998, derde herziene druk 1999.

Haspelmath e.a. (2005)

Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie (red.), The World Atlas of Language Structures.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005,

Lyovin (1997)

Anatole V. Lyovin, An introduction to the languages of the world.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Pereltsvaig (2012)

Asya Pereltsvaig, Languages of the World: An Introduction.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Ramsey (1987)

S. Robert Ramsey, The languages of China.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Stevenson (1998)

Victor Stevenson. Woorden: Een geïllustreerde geschiedenis van de westerse talen.

Guus Houtzager, bewerking en vertaling. Utrecht: Het Spectrum, 1998.

Kaarten

• Steve Huffman Language Maps

  "Innovative and refined data for geographic analysis"

• Freelang - Language maps

  "the geographic distribution of language families