The sci.lang FAQ: 17

17 Where can I get an electronic IPA font (or other electronic resources)?

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Adapted from information posted to sci.lang by Sean Redmond, Evan Antworth, Chris Brockett, Roy Cochrun, Harlan Messinger, Jörg Knappen, Alex Rudnicky, Enrico Scalas, and Mark Kantrowitz.

If you know of other linguistics-oriented web pages or publicly available (and legal) fonts or other linguistic resources, please e-mail me or post to sci.lang, so they can be listed here.

A number of Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts (including IPA, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, etc.) are available by ftp in the directory ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win3/fonts/truetype

List (ls) the directory to see what's available. The files are zipped; a version of unzip is usually available on whatever host you use to ftp with.

Note: TrueType files can be used under Windows or on the Macintosh. I'm not sure if the unzipped files can be inserted directly into the Mac's Fonts folder; I ran them through Fontographer first.

The SIL IPA fonts (also in PostScript Type 1 and TrueType versions) are also available by ftp from:

• linguistics.archive.umich.edu/msdos/windows/fonts/truetype/sil-ipa12.exe (Windows)
• linguistics.archive.umich.edu/mac/system.extensions/font/type1/silipa1.2.cpt.hqx (Mac)

They are also available on diskette for $5.00 plus postage: $2.00 in U.S. or $5.00 outside the U.S. Order from:
SIL Printing Arts Department
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas TX 75236 USA
tel: 214-709-2495, -2440 fax:214-709-3387.
e-mail: Margaret.Swauger@sil.org

University College London also sells these fonts on disk ($32).

Some IPA fonts for TeX can be found in the CTAN archives at

• ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts
• ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts
• ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts

For mirror of the CTAN archives, finger ctan@ftp.dante.de.

To access the Carnegie-Mellon 100,000-word English dictionary, retrieve the following files:

• ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/fgdata/dict/README
• ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/fgdata/dict/cmudict.0.2.Z (compressed)
• ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/fgdata/dict/cmulex.0.1.Z (compressed)
• ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/fgdata/dict/phoneset.0.1

Here's some Web pages containing information of interest on linguistics or languages.

• John Lawler's Eclectic Company - A comprehensive, annotated list of resources on linguistics; Lawler also has collected informative essays of his own, plus the captivating Chomskybot
• The Linguist List website
• John Well's page on how to use IPA on the Web
• The Brown University linguistics page
• Summer Institute of Linguistics Ethnologue (languages database)
• SIL home page
• Association for Computational Linguistics homepage
• A Web of On-Line Dictionaries - Over 400 on-line dictionaries and grammars
• EDU2 : Language Theory -- E.J.Inglis-Arkell's list of well-chosen linguistics links
• University of Virginia electronic text center
• University of Stuttgart - Institute for Natural Language Processing
• Tyler Chambers' Human-Languages Page
• List of conferences of interest to linguists, translators, etc.
• Sound files demonstrating the standard IPA phones
• The Metalleus archives Metalleus is the Monty Python of linguistics.
• alt.usage.english FAQ (interesting in its own right, and a guide to what shouldn't appear in sci.lang)
• Carl T. Berkhout's Circolwyrde Wordhord Computer terms ('beta release', 'RTFM', 'virtual reality'...) translated into Anglo-Saxon. Amusing and surreal; sheds an interesting light on the evolution of English.
• Utah State University An on-line set of linguistics courses.

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