This brief overview from Mental Floss magazine covers some of the theories of how human language all began - and why it's controversial.

An overview of early Mesoamerican writing systems.

A reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages, including languages that have gone out of use since the first edition was published in 1951.

Links and resources on Quechua and Aymara languages.

This essay by Ian Bogost discusses one particular episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that he suggests "traced the limits of human communication as we know it—and suggested a new, truer way of talking about the universe."

Films recorded in or dealing with contemporary world languages- notably Chinese, French, English, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.