The digest explains the rationale underlying good bilingual education programs and summarizes research findings about their effectiveness. This week the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Arizona's version of Official English. This public high school is exclusively for recently arrived immigrants. This report is a compilation of 12 ongoing projects in bilingual education, chosen for the breadth of instructional strategies their work represents. Each dictionary contains some 1600 words.
Users can also hear Hmong and English pronunciations by clicking on a word.
Users can look up languages by country, or consult an alphabetic list of languages to see how many people speak them in each country. Also available is the language family index, which groups languages by shared structural and lexical innovations. Language information can also include number of speakers in the world, dialects, linguistic typology, and availability of the Bible. Country information includes the languages spoken, and can also include various demographic and geographic information. Also see Special Populations .