There is a wealth of information on the World Wide Web, but sometimes it is difficult to find a good starting point. The following have been chosen as good guides for Linguistics Web sites.
Linguist is the chief list-server for linguistics.
The home page provides information about subscribing to the List as well as links to many web-accessible linguistic sources. Ethnologue is the standard directory of the world's languages about which it offers information on alternative names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic information. A total of over 6,700 living languages are described. Variants of the language that are not distinct enough to need separate entries are treated as dialects, and are listed under the language entry, unless attitudes or other social factors are strong enough that they need to be treated as separate sociolinguistic entities. The primary table of contents for the Ethnologue is organized by geographical areas and countries.