Description:A huge Russian-Chinese dictionary (appr. 157,000 entries), providing principal Standard Chinese equivalents, used in colloquial and official speech, for Russian vocabulary.
Source:Dempwolff 1916
Author:Dempwolff, Otto
Full name:Die Sandawe.
Publisher data:Hamburg: L. Friederichsen & Co.
Language(s):Sandawe
Code(s):snd-snd
Description:One of the oldest works on the Sandawe, with a detailed ethnographic description, grammar, vocabulary, and text examples. Transcription quality is not thoroughly reliable, but the work remains an important historical source.
Source:Dempwolff 1917
Author:Dempwolff, Otto
Full name:Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Sprachen in Deutsch-Ostafrika.
Publisher data:In: Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen, 7, pp. 309-325.
Language(s):Hadza
Code(s):hdz-hdz
Description:A brief paper containing three wordlists (Iraqw, Datooga, and Hadza) collected by O. Dempwolff in 1910-11; the Hadza wordlist, along with E. Obst's data published in 1912, remains one of the oldest sources on the language and is thus of considerable historic interest.
Source:Dennis & Dennis 1983
Author:Dennis, Ronald K.; Dennis, Margaret Royce de
Full name:Diccionario Tol (Jicaque)-Español y Español-Tol (Jicaque).
Publisher data:Tegucigalpa, Honduras: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en colaboración con El Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia
Language(s):Tol (Eastern Jicaque)
Code(s):jic-tol
Description:A small Tol-Spanish, Spanish-Tol dictionary (1000 words in each part) with many textual examples.
Publisher data:Москва-Ленинград: Издательство Академии Наук СССР.
Language(s):Batsbi
Code(s):nah-bbl
Description:A detailed description of the phonology and grammar of Batsbi; includes selected lists of nominal and verbal items and examples of texts.
Source:Dickens 1994
Author:Dickens, Patrick
Full name:English-Juǀ'hoan - / Juǀ'hoan-English Dictionary.
Publisher data:Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
Language(s):Zhuǀ'hoan
Code(s):nkh-juh
Description:Large, posthumously edited dictionary, based on careful reexamination of J. Snyman's earlier [1975] dictionary with new data added. "Based on the dialect of Juǀ'hoan spoken in the Nyae Nyae area of Namibia". Relies on the author's highly idiosyncratic orthography system, transliterated in the database.
Source:DILF 2001
Author:[Collective]
Full name:Dizionario Italiano – Ladino Fassano.
Publisher data:Vigo di Fassa.
Language(s):Ladin, Fassano
Code(s):rom-fas
Description:Large Italian-Fassano and Fassano-Italian dictionary.
Source:Dirr 1903
Author:Дирр, А. М.
Full name:Грамматика удинского языка. Сборник материалов для описания местностей и племен Кавказа, вып. 33..
Publisher data:Тифлис.
Language(s):Udi, Vartashen
Code(s):lez-udv
Description:A grammar of the Vartashen dialect of Udi.
Source:Dirr 1907
Author:Дирр, А. М.
Full name:Агульский язык. Сборник материалов для описания местностей и племен Кавказа, вып. 37.
Publisher data:Тифлис.
Language(s):Aghul, Gequn
Code(s):lez-agg
Description:A grammar of the Gequn (Burkikhan) dialect of the Aghul language, supplemented by texts and a glossary.
Source:Dirr 1908
Author:Дирр, А. М.
Full name:Арчинский язык. Сборник материалов для описания местностей и племен Кавказа, вып. 39.
Publisher data:Тифлис.
Language(s):Archi
Code(s):lez-aqc
Description:A grammar of the Archi language, supplemented by texts and a glossary.
Source:Dirr 1912
Author:Дирр, А. М.
Full name:Рутульский язык. Сборник материалов для описания местностей и племен Кавказа, вып. 42.
Publisher data:Тифлис.
Language(s):Rutul, Mukhad
Code(s):lez-rum
Description:A grammar of the Mukhad dialect of Rutul, supplemented by texts and a glossary (the latter also includes some forms from the Shinaz dialect under the siglum "Ш.").
Source:Dirr 1913
Author:Дирр, А. М.
Full name:Цахурский язык. [The Tsakhur Language].
Publisher data:Тифлис.
Language(s):Tsakhur, Mikik
Code(s):lez-tky
Description:A grammar of the Mikik dialect of the Tsakhur language, supplemented by texts and a glossary.
Source:Dixon 1910
Author:Dixon, Roland B.
Full name:The Chimariko Indians and Language.
Publisher data:University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 5. No. 5. P. 293-380. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Language(s):Chimariko
Code(s):chi-chi
Description:An ethnographic sketch of the Chimariko, accompanied by a short grammar, texts and vocabulary of the Chimariko language. As a rule, Dixon does not distinguish in his records between simple, aspirated and glottalized stops and often writes vowel length instead of glottal stop.
Source:Dobrizhoffer 1822
Author:Dobrizhoffer, Martin
Full name:An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay.
Publisher data:London: John Murray, Albemarle Street.
Language(s):Abipon
Code(s):gua-abp
Description:An English translation of Martin Dobrizhoffer's Latin treatise "Historia de Abiponibus" (1784). Linguistic evidence, although in a very chaotic manner, is located in chapters 16 and 17 of Vol. 2.
Source:Doke 1925
Author:Doke, Clement M.
Full name:An outline of the phonetics of the language of the Chû: Bushmen of north-west Kalahari.
Publisher data:In: Bantu studies and general South African anthropology, 2 (3), pp. 129-165.
Language(s):!Kung, Grootfontein
Code(s):nkh-dkk
Description:Brief article that contains a detailed description of the phonetical system of a North Khoisan dialect in the Grootfontein district. Also contains a small vocabulary, sufficient for about 75% of the Swadesh wordlist. Very high quality of data transcription for its time, although not entirely free of mistakes.
Source:Doke 1936
Author:Doke, Clement M.
Full name:An outline of ǂKhomani Bushman phonetics.
Publisher data:In: Bantu studies (Johannesburg), 10, pp. 433-461.
Language(s):ǂKhomani
Code(s):kwi-kho
Description:Description of the phonetic and phonological system of the ǂKhomani dialect, accompanied by a significant amount of illustrative lexical material, but without a separate vocabulary.
Source:Doornbos & Bender 1983
Author:Doornbos, Paul; Bender, M. Lionel
Full name:Languages of Wadai-Darfur.
Publisher data:In: Nilo-Saharan Language Studies. Ed. by M. Lionel Ben\-der. Michigan: East Lansing, pp. 42-79.
Language(s):Amdang
Code(s):fur-amd
Description:A condensed report on the authors' fieldwork with various languages of the Wadai-Darfur area, including excerpts from P. Doornbos' lexical data on Biltine (Amdang).
Source:Dornan 1917
Author:Dornan, S. S.
Full name:The Tati Bushmen (Masarwas) and their language.
Publisher data:In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 47, pp. 37-112.
Language(s):Hiechware
Code(s):kho-hie
Description:Includes a large, but highly inaccurate, sketch of the phonology and grammar of the Hiechware dialect of the Tsua subgroup, accompanied with an extensive vocabulary: for the moment, this is the largest vocabulary of an East Kalahari Khoe language in existence, but, unfortunately, with tremendously poor quality of notation.
Source:Drayson 1999
Author:Drayson, Nicholas
Full name:Niwak Samtis. Diccionario Iyojwa'ja 'Lij – Kilay 'Lij (Chorote-Castellano).
Publisher data:Ms.
Language(s):Chorote, Iyojwa'ja
Code(s):mat-iya
Description:An online dictionary of Iyojwaʼja Chorote. Some phonologic oppositions might be disrespected.
