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Includes sites concerning German literature, linguistics, online dictionaries, grammars, and teaching aids.
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (http://www.deutscheakademie.de)
German Academy of Language and Literature. Schedule of readings, conferences, and other events; information on the Georg B¨chner Prize for literature and other prizes awarded by the academy; descriptions of publications, with online ordering. In German.
Ethnologue. Languages
of Germany (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=DE)
Provides information on the 27 known living languages and their populations as well as the two extinct languages of Germany.
Goethe-Institut:
Deutsch als Fremdsprache (http://www.goethe.de/pro/offline/daf-bib.htm)
Bibliography of language teaching materials. Searchable database of bibliographic information on teaching materials for German as a foreign language, including dictionaries and reference works. In German.
Gutenberg.de (http://www.gutenberg.de/index.htm)
Profile of Johannes Gutenberg's life and times, information on his 42-line Bible, the invention of moveable type, the history of book production, list of related publications, and links to other Gutenberg-related sites. In German, some English.
Gutenberg Digital (http://www.gutenbergdigital.de)
Digital version of the Gutenberg Bible and other Gutenberg documents from the collections of the Lower Saxony State and University Library at Göttingen. In German.
Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) (http://www.ids-mannheim.de)
Institute for the German Language, Mannheim. Germany's central institution for the study and documentation of the German language. Links to general information on the German language and other resources; descriptions of current projects; access to the IDS-Korpora, a comprehensive collection of examples of contemporary German usage; information on the Rechtschreibereform; information on publications and research reports; online access to the institute's library catalog. In German, limited descriptions in English.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE (http://gutenberg.spiegel.de)
Searchable database of online literature selections by over 1,000 German and non-German writers from ancient to modern times (texts are translated into German); offers downloadable selections for use in e-books.
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