South Asian Language Learning Resources

Below are links to online dictionaries and other language resources for the learning and study of South Asian languages.

Bengali

• A Bengali prose reader for second-year students
• Introduction to Bengali : a basic course in spoken Bengali

Hindi

• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia: A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English
• A Door Into Hindi
• Hindi Alphabets
• Hindi Language Program(UIUC)
• Hindi Language Resources
• Hindi Language and Literature
• Hindi Links
• Hindi Authors
• Learn to Read Hindi

Malayalam

• Learn Malayalam

Pali

• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia: The Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary

Punjabi

• Learn Punjabi

Sanskrit

• Online Sanskrit Dictionary
• Learn Sanskrit
• Sanskrit Library
• Samskrita Bharati

Tamil

• Learning and Teaching of Tamil
• Tamil Language in Context

Telugu

• Glossary for graded readings in modern literary Telugu
• Graded readings in modern literary Telugu

Urdu

• UrduWord.com English-Urdu Dictionary and Lessons
• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia: A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English
• Learn Urdu
• Darvazah: A Door Into Urdu
• Introductory Urdu  Volume 1 and Volume 2
• Readings in Urdu: prose and poetry