Inspirational Natlangs

With a little digging, one can easily find quite a selection of freely-available grammars on the web. Normally I just download these and dump them into my e-reader, but then if I want to direct someone else to a grammar, I have to go hunting again. It seemed useful to make a list.

I do not include Wikipedia pages in this list. Some languages have their phonologies and morphologies very well described there, but most articles are very weak on syntax.

The organization below is based on region rather than family. I have no particular attachment to this scheme, if someone has a more useful plan.

Africa

• Firdu-Fula Grammar (Gambian Dialect)
• Igbo sketch
• Pular (Fuuta Jallon) Tutorial
• Wolof
• Yoruba, very brief

Middle-East and Caucasus

Northeast Caucasian

• A Grammar of Khwarshi
• Lak somewhat light

Central Asia and Siberia

• Burushaski, an isolate.
• Tundra Nenets Grammatical Sketch

Indo-European

• Introduction to Old Avestan
• Introduction to Manichaean Sogdian

South Asia

• A Grammar of Galo (Tibeto-Burman)
• A Practical Grammar of the Pali Language (Indo-European)

East and South-east Asia

• Ainu for Beginners 58 lessons
• A Generative Sketch of Burmese
• A Grammar of Kurtop (Tibeto-Burman)
• A Manchu Grammar (a bit old)
• A Short Introduction to the Mon Language
• Nùng Grammar (Tai-Kadai)

Australia and Polynesia

• A Grammar of Abui
• Materials on Golin: Grammar, Texts and Dictionary
• A Grammar Sketch of the Kaki Ae Language
• Kuot Grammar Essentials
• A Grammatical Sketch of Ngarla: A Language of Western Australia
• Grammar of the Sentani Language
• Tungak Grammar Essentials

North and Central America

Algonquin

• Arapaho
• Blackfoot
• Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe): not as tidy as it could be

Athabascan

• Introduction to Dena'ina: Kenai (Outer Inlet) Dialect
• Hupa Grammar; Hupa Language Dictionary
• Phonology and Morphology of Tanacross
• Tlingit Grammar Outline

Iroquoian

• A Reference Grammar of Oklahoma Cherokee
• Oneida Dictionary and Teaching Grammar

Mayan

• Einführung in das kolonialzeitliche K’iche’ (Quiché)
• Tzotzil, grammar summary from a dictionary
• A Grammar of the Yucatecan Mayan Language

Sahaptin

• Yakima Ichishkíin
• Nez Perce Verb Morphology; Topics in the Nez Perce Verb (dissertation)

Salishan

• Coeur d'Alene grammar and texts (not always tidy)
• Spokan Grammar
• Aspect and category in Okanagan word formation
• The Kinkade Collection: the On-Line Archive of Papers for the International Conference on Salish (and Neighbo(u)ring) Languages

Uto-Aztecan

• UA Overview
• Chemehuevi field notes, dissertation, grammar and sound files.
• Modern Aztecan Grammatical Sketches: Tetelcinco Nahuatl, North Puebla Nahuatl, Huasteca Nahuatl, Michoacán Nahual
• Northern UA Grammatical Sketches: Northern Paiute, Papago, Northern Tepehuan
• Southern UA Grammatical Sketches: Western Tarahumara, Cora
• Hopi summary; Hopi Lessons
• Luiseño summary

Other Families and Isolates

• Choctaw sketch
• Mutsun Grammar (Utian) by Marc Okrand, the inventor of Klingon
• Upper Necaxa Totonac
• Studies in Southern Wakashan (Nootkan) Grammar (Nuuchahnulth and Makah)
• A Reference Grammar of Wappo viewable online, but you have to pay to download
• Sketch of Wichita, a Caddoan Language, almost no syntax

South America

• The Language of the Apurinã People of Brazil (Maipure/Arawak)
• Aymara (Spanish)
• Kokama-Kokamilla
• Quechua very sparse
• A course in Old Tupi (Portuguese)