Lojban & 中文 linguistics resources

Recommended English/中文 bilingual Dictionaries:

• English-中文 dictionary. Very large vocabulary. (Traditional Chars, Big5 encoding). http://cdict.freetcp.com/

• Wiktionary (for any language to English) wiktionary.org. When looking up Chinese characters in Wiktionary, it also provides info of the character as used in Japanese and Korean, and provides unicode info, pronunciation in pinyin, Chinese input key sequence. For example, start at the radical index: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Chinese_radical_index

• Chinese-English dictionary. http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html

Recommended 中文字典:

重編國語辭典修訂本↗ and few others, indexed here: http://www.edu.tw/EDU_WEB/EDU_MGT/MANDR/EDU6300001/fourdict.htm?open.

• zhongwen.com is a very large site on Chinese by Rick Harbaugh. Especially good and rare is a character genealogy of all Chinese characters.

General Info on Chinese (mostly for beginners)

• great site featuring recorded pronunciation of Chinese: http://www.chinawestexchange.com/Mandarin/pinyin/pinyinChart.htm

• http://wikipedia.org/wiki/chinese_language

• http://wikipedia.org/wiki/pinyin

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_character

• 维基百科: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/简体中文

• A well-researched technical essay on characters simplification, including a brief history of character evolution, and a complete list of the 350 non-trivial ones. Dylan W H Sung, 2001: http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/hanzi/t-s-s1.htm

Computer related (input systems, fonts, encodings).

• If you use Mac OS X, here is a comprehensive site of using Chinese with it: http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/. The site includes overview of Chinese in Mac OS X, explanation of fonts and encodings, how to input Chinese, tutorials on various input systems, font resources,...etc.

• Using Python to convert character encoding: http://xahlee.org/perl-python/charset_encoding.html

Writing System of Human Animals

• This site gives a overview of all writing systems of human animals. Author is Simon Ager. http://omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm.

“Language Miniatures”, by William Z Shetter. This is a collection of short essays on English thru the eyes of linguistics. Fanatic morsels. Highly recommended. http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/allmins.html

Other Chinese dicts and tools (I have not used much)

• Chinese/Engish dict: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

• Dictionary http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/

• Simplified to Traditional characters conversion. http://artvine.com.tw/images/uu2.htm

• character code converter http://www.pinyin.info/tools/converter/chars2uninumbers.html

• http://glossword.info/list/169/ Chinese Hieroglyphs Reference

Recommended References on lojban

• Wikipedia on lojban: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/lojban

• What is lojban by Nick Nicholas and John Cowan. 2003 (best terse overview on the language) http://lojban.org/publications/level0.html

• Official Lojban Reference: http://xahlee.org/hrefgram/index.html. Here's a copy with my edits as i read it: http://xahlee.org/hrefgram2/index.html .