Proverb Resources


	Proverb Resources
	Discursive Modes Collection
	(revised 8 November 2003)


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	(Searches CogWeb and the Egyptian and Japanese sites listed below)

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Collections	(external unless noted as local)
	*Afghanistan* (local; some bilingual)
	*African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories* (major multilingual site with list server and useful links; see also local collection with further links)
	*Ashanti Proverbs* (local; translations only)
	*Biblical Book of Proverbs* (local; multilingual)
	*Chinese Proverbs* (local; translations only)
	*Dutch: Spreekwoorden* (database) *Nederlandse Spreekwoorden* (database) *Citaten, spreekwoorden en gezegden* (database of quotations, proverbs and sayings in Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish)
	*Egyptian* (ancient; translations only)
	*English Proverbs, Anti- and Contrary Proverbs* (local) *English Proverbs and Spanish Equivalents* (local) *Proverbs and Sayings* (database)
	*Estonian* (see also German translation)
	*German in the US* (bilingual)
	*Hawai'ian* (bilingual) *`Ôlelo No`eau* (bilingual)
	*Ilocano Proverbs and Sayings* (local; bilingual)
	*Italian* (local; bilingual) *Vignali's letter* (local; no translations)
	Ivatan proverbs (local; bilingual)
	*Japanese* (bilingual)
	*Kurdish* (local; translations only)
	*Maltese* (local; bilingual)
	*Mayan* (local; bilingual)
	*Nigerian* (translations only)
	*Norse Hávamál* (translations only)
	*Norwegian* (no translations) *Nynorsk* (local; no translations)
	*Proverbs from Around the World* (local) *Proverbs* (multinational database at Generation Terrorists)
	*Romanian* (Teodor Flonta's English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs)
	*Russian* (local; translations only)
	*South Sotho* (local; translations only)
	*Spanish* (local; provisional translations) *Spanish Proverbs with English Equivalents* (local)
	*Sumerian* (bilingual) *Sumerian* (The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford)
	*Swahili* (bilingual)
	*Tamil* (originals and loose equivalents)
	*Welsh* (bilingual)
	*Yiddish and Polish* (trilingual)


Journals and Organizations	(all external)
	*American Folklore Society - Journal*
	*De Proverbio (on-line journal)*
	*Folklore (on-line journal from Estonia)*
	*International Proverb Forum '96*
	*Metaphor and Symbol (journal)*
	*Proverbium: A Yearbook (journal)*


On-line Articles	(external unless noted as local)
	*Flonta. Articles*
	*Hernadi & Steen. The Tropical Landscapes of Proverbia* (local)
	*Järv. Is Providing Proverbs a Tough Job?*
	*Mieder. Articles*
	*Moon, Paul. Maori Proverbs*
	*Yuksel, Edip. Proverbs and Patriarchy*


Reference	(external unless noted as local)
	*CogWeb's Proverb Bibliography* (local)
	*International Proverb Scholarship: Mieder's Updated Bibliographies*
	*Dictionary of Proverbs in American Country Music Hits (1986-1996)* by Steven R. Folsom
	*Bartlett's Familiar Quotations* (searchable)