The Spanish language page

On this page you will find a selection of Spanish language weblinks. Please let me know if you discover others that have proved useful. ^ TOP

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
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/ ^ TOP

Some related websites from other Universities

University of Brighton: http://www.bton.ac.uk/edusport/languages/recursos/lengua.html
University of Cambridge: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/resources/
University of Bristol: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Hispanic/resource.html
University of California at Berkeley: http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/
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/ ^ TOP

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://parnaseo.uv.es/Webs/Mediber.html (details) ^ TOP

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 ^ TOP

Corpora

Mark Davies's Corpus of Historical Spanish Texts (searchable): http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/
Base de datos sintácticos del español actual at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela: http://www.bds.usc.es/
GlossaNet, a search engine giving daily access to the online editions of more than 100 newspapers in 12 languages from the University of Louvain: http://glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be/ ^ TOP

Teaching and learning Spanish

The Queen Mary Department of Hispanic Studies Resources page: http://www.modern-languages.qmul.ac.uk/hispstudies/olspll.shtml
Teaching and learning resources from the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies: http://www.llas.ac.uk/index.aspx
Call@Hull: internet resources for language teachers and learners (deriving from the former CTI at Hull): http://www.fredriley.org.uk/call/langsite/
A directory of selected on-line Spanish language-learning materials, courses abroad, etc.: http://www.spanishlanguage.co.uk/ ^ TOP

On-line dictionaries

A reference list of on-line Spanish dictionaries, regularly updated, is at http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/romance.html#spanish
Diccionario de la Real Academia Española: http://www.rae.es/
Diccionarios de El Mundo: http://www.elmundo.es/diccionarios/
Diccionario ANAYA: http://www.diccionarios.com/
WordReference (http://www.wordreference.com/) hosts the Espasa dictionaries (an enhanced version of the Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionaries, the monolingual Diccionario de la lengua espaola and Diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos). This site also contains translators' language forums.
LOGOS dictionary project: http://www.logos.it/query/query.html ^ TOP

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/ ^ TOP

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/
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: MavenSearch Jewish Web Directory: a site with many Sephardic links: http://www.mavensearch.com/subjects.asp?S=497
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.museosefardi.net/
Kaló: The home page of the Unión Romani: http://www.unionromani.org/
A Web Journal of Gypsy culture and history: http://www.geocities.com/~patrin/
El léxico caló en el lenguaje flamenco (Miguel Ropero Núñez, Universidad de Sevilla): via http://caf.cica.es/mundo_flamenco/

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Spanish On-Line texts

General: The Centro Virtual Cervantes, a growing library of electronic texts: http://cervantesvirtual.com
The Biblioteca Virtual Universal: http://www.biblioteca.org.ar/catalogo.asp
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
Spanish philosophers on-line: http://www.filosofia.org/autores.htm
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/
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.colorado.edu/spanish/barletta/zifar/
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/

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On-line journals

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

Spanish press

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

Spanish radio

A comprehensive directory of Spanish-language radio stations can be found at http://www.el-castellano.com/radios.html and at http://www.e-spanyol.hu/en/radio.php (the latter provides direct links to streaming audio and a WinAmp playlist).
BBC Mundo has streaming audio and video. ^ TOP

To relax (but seriously)

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