Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Modern & Medieval Languages

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The Spanish Language Page

On this page you will find links to a number of internet resources which may help you with your studies in Spanish language and linguistics. It is primarily intended for students of Spanish Linguistics and Philology in the University of Cambridge, but others are warmly invited to use it.

Note that internet links may rapidly become obsolete. If you have any updates, modifications, additions or deletions to suggest, please e-mail me at cjp16@cam.ac.uk.

This page was last updated on 18 January 2003.

Dr Chris Pountain
Queens' College
Cambridge CB3 9ET

Spanish Language: sites of general interest

The home page of the Real Academia Española: http://www.rae.es/
The Instituto Cervantes website: http://cvc.cervantes.es/portada.htm
Página de la lengua española: http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es/~mmonjas/espannol.html
La Página del idioma español: http://www.el-castellano.com/
BitBiblioteca, a miscellany of material: http://www.analitica.com/bitblioteca/home/
El sitio de la lengua castellana: http://www.lenguaje.com/

Some related websites from other Universities:

University of Birmingham: http://www.bham.ac.uk/hispanic/home.htm
University of Brighton: http://www.bton.ac.uk/edusport/languages/recursos/lengua.html
University of Bristol: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Hispanic/resource.html
University of California at Berkeley: http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/span/surf.html
University of Leicester: http://www.le.ac.uk/ml/spanish/FRspanish.html
University of Newcastle: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/links/spanish.htm
University of Nottingham: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hispanic/general/links.htm
University of Oxford: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/spanish/sites.html
Sheffield College: http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/links/Languages/Spanish/
University of Southampton: http://www.lang.soton.ac.uk/students/Spanish.htm

Discussion lists:

INFOLING list, based at the University of Barcelona, which disseminates bibliographic and other information about the Spanish-speaking world: http://listserv.rediris.es/archives/infoling.html (archives)
TECHABLA: Tecnologia del habla: http://listserv.rediris.es/archives/techabla.html (archives)
MEDIBER: An Internet Discussion Group for Medieval Iberia: http://www.uv.es/~lemir/Mediber.html (details)

Spanish Language: History

Voces y letras hispánicas, from the Centro Virtual Cervantes: http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/dvi/
A virtual pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/iagohome.html
A page dedicated to Gonzalo de Berceo: http://www.virtualcom.es/aloja/paginas/gberceo.htm
The Glosas Emilianenses: http://www.virtualcom.es/aloja/paginas/glosas0.htm
Medieval Literary Resources: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/medieval.html

Historical dictionaries on line

Mark Davies's Corpus of Historical Spanish Texts (searchable): http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/corpus/

Teaching and learning Spanish:

Teaching and learning resources from the CTI, Hull: http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/langsite/
A general Spanish language learning site: http://www.spanishlanguage.co.uk/

On-line dictionaries

A reference list of on-line Spanish dictionaries, regularly updated, is at http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/romance.html#spanish
Diccionario ANAYA: http://www.diccionarios.com/
LOGOS dictionary project: http://www.logos.it/query/query.html

Other materials

An interesting suite of programs which will parse words and generate morphological derivatives (including verb forms) from the Universidad de Las Palmas: http://www.gedlc.ulpgc.es/
Vademécum de español urgente: http://www.efe.es/

Special interest

Spain

El habla en Cantabria: http://personales.mundivia.es/llera/habla01.htm

Latin America

A website devoted to the Venezuelan statesman and linguist Andrés Bello: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9505/andresbello.html
The home page of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española: http://www.georgetown.edu:80/academia/

Creole

A general article about Papiamentu: http://www.interknowledge.com/bonaire/bonpap01.htm

US Spanish

La Raza, a bilingual Hispanic online Chicago newspaper: http://www.laraza.com/
Mundo Latino, a US Spanish website with many links: http://www.mundolatino.org/ ; see especially the links on the language page at http://www.mundolatino.org/cultura/Literatura/Idioma/

Galician

Instituto da lingua galega homepage: http://www.usc.es/~ilgas/
University of Virginia links to Galician e-texts: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html#galician

Judeo-Spanish

BSZ Net: a site with many Sephardic links: http://www.bsz.org/seph-main.htm
Instituto Sefardi Europeo: a site with many links, including the publication Los Muestros (can be read in English, French or Judeo-Spanish): http://www.sefarad.org/
The website of the Sinagoga del Tránsito, Toledo: http://www.servicom.es/museosefardi/

Kaló

The home page of the Unión Romani: http://www.unionromani.org/union.htm
A Web Journal of Gypsy culture and history: http://www.patrin.com/
El léxico caló en el lenguaje flamenco (Miguel Ropero Núñez, Universidad de Sevilla): via http://caf.cica.es/mundo_flamenco/

Spanish On-Line texts

General sites:The Centro Virtual Cervantes, a growing library of electronic texts: http://cervantesvirtual.com

Links to a large number of sites holding electronic texts in Spanish: http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero6/lite_www.htm
The text of many comedias: http://www.coh.arizona.edu/spanish/comedia/textlist.html
An electronic corpus of spoken Spanish at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: http://elvira.lllf.uam.es/corpus/corpus.html
Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro: http://teso.chadwyck.co.uk/frames/moreinfo/htxview?template=basic.htx&content=abtfram.htx (available from within the .cam domain only)
Spanish philosophers on-line: http://www.filosofia.org/autores.htm
Links to a large number of sites holding electronic texts in Spanish: http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es/~mmonjas/lit.html
Arthus, a virtual text project at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: http://www.sintx.usc.es/Arthus.html
Links to a number of on-line texts, especially Latin American: http://www.mundolatino.org/cultura/Literatura/Textos/
A collection of literary texts, mainly medieval and Golden Age, with good interactive materials: http://aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/cibertextos/
University of Virginia links to Spanish e-texts: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html#spanish

Individual authors:

The works of Gonzalo de Berceo: http://www.geocities.com/urunuela1/berceo/berceo1.htm
The works of Miguel de Cervantes: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/spanish/ctxt/
The works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/
The works of Federico García Lorca: http://www.fut.es/~picl/libros/glorca/gl000000.htm

Individual works:

The Caballero de Zifar (an interactive site with facsimile and glosses): http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/cifar/
An interactive version of the Poema de mio Cid, with glossaries, concordance and background information: http://aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/cibertextos/MIO-CID/index.html
An interactive version of the 1499 Celestina, with facsimile, glossaries and background information: http://aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/cibertextos/CELESTINA/

On-line journals

Estudios de Lingüística Española (international e-journal based at the Universitat de Barcelona): http://elies.rediris.es/

Spanish Press

A comprehensive directory of newspapers and magazines in Spanish can be found at http://www.el-castellano.com/prensa.html

Spanish Radio:

A comprehensive directory of Spanish-language radio stations can be found at http://www.el-castellano.com/radios.html

To relax (but seriously)

A linguistic analysis of Spanish insults: http://www.jamillan.com/insultos.htm

 

 

 

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