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The 'alt.culture.?' and 'soc.culture.?' newsgroups
Conference-type discussions in English and vernacular languages take place in various newsgroups (a.k.a. discussion groups). Your question about a little-used dialect or point of grammar may perhaps be answered in one of the following newsgroups.
Most of the newsgroups are indexed below according to the name of the country which their name contains. Some newgroups are however named after a language. These are listed below under the name of a relevent country or region with a corresponding cross-index entry. See India, Korea and Latin America for examples.
Afghanistan: soc.culture.afghanistan
African: soc.culture.african
African-American: soc.culture.african.american
African-American: soc.culture.african.american.moderated
African: soc.culture.african
Alaska: alt.culture.alaska
Albania: soc.culture.albanian
Algeria: soc.culture.algeria
Antarctica: soc.culture.antarctica
Arab League: alt.culture.arab-league
Arabic: soc.culture.arabic
Argentina: alt.culture.argentina
Argentina: soc.culture.argentina
Armenia: alt.culture.armenia
ASEAN: soc.culture.asean
Ashanti: soc.culture.african.ashanti
Asia: soc.culture.asian
Asian-American: soc.culture.asian.american
Asian-Indian: alt.culture.us.asian-indian
Assam: alt.culture.assam
Assyrian: soc.culture.assyrian
Asturies: alt.culture.astur
Asturies: soc.culture.asturies
Australia: soc.culture.australian
Austria: soc.culture.austria
Austria: alt.culture.austrian
Azerbaijan: alt.culture.azerbaijan
Azeri: soc.culture.azeri
Aztec, see Latin America, below.
Baltics: soc.culture.baltics
Bangladesh: soc.culture.bangladesh
Bashkir: soc.culture.bashkir
Basque: soc.culture.basque
Bavarian: soc.culture.bavarian
Belarus: soc.culture.belarus
Belgium: soc.culture.belgium
Bengali: soc.culture.bengali
Berber: soc.culture.berber
Black: alt.culture.black
Bolivia: soc.culture.bolivia
Bosnia-Herzogovina: soc.culture.bosna.herzgvna
Brazil: soc.culture.brazil
Breton: soc.culture.breton
British: soc.culture.british
Bulgaria: soc.culture.bulgaria
Burma: soc.culture.burma
C.I.S.: soc.culture.cis
Cajun: alt.culture.cajun
Cambodia: soc.culture.cambodia
Canada: soc.culture.canada
Caribbean: soc.culture.caribbean
Catalan: bit.listserv.catala
Catalan: soc.culture.catalan
Caucasia: alt.culture.caucasia
Celtic: soc.culture.celtic
Chaldean: soc.culture.chaldean
Charnego: soc.culture.charnego
Chechnya: alt.culture.chechnya
Chejudo, see Korea, below.
Chile: soc.culture.chile
China: alt.culture.china
China: soc.culture.china
Chinese: alt.chinese.text
Chinese: alt.chinese.text.big5
Chinese: fj.soc.culture.chinese
Chinese: rpi.culture.chinese
Chinese: sci.lang.chinese
Chollado, see Korea, below.
Chungchongdo, see Korea, below.
Chuvash: soc.culture.chuvash
CIS, see C.I.S., above.
Colombia: soc.culture.colombia
Cornish: soc.culture.cornish
Corsica: soc.culture.corsica
Costa-Rica: soc.culture.costa-rica
Crete: alt.culture.crete
Crimea: alt.culture.crimea
Croatia: soc.culture.croatia
Cuba: soc.culture.cuba
Cyprus: alt.culture.cyprus
Czech: soc.culture.czech
Czecho-Slovak: soc.culture.czecho-slovak
Dagestan: alt.culture.dagestan
Delhi, see India Delhi
Dominican-Republic: soc.culture.dominican-rep
Druse: soc.culture.druse
Ebonics: alt.language.ebonics
Ecuador: soc.culture.ecuador
Egyptian: alt.culture.egyptian
Egyptian: soc.culture.egyptian
Eire (Ireland): soc.culture.irish
El-Salvador: soc.culture.el-salvador
English: alt.usage.english
English: bit.listserv.words-l
Eritrea: soc.culture.eritrean
Esperanto: alt.esperato.komencanto.nacilingve
Esperanto: alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc
Esperanto: soc.culture.esperanto
Estonia: soc.culture.estonia
Ethiopia: soc.culture.ethiopia
Ethiopia: soc.culture.ethiopia.misc
Ethiopia: soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated
Europe: soc.culture.europe
Ewe: soc.culture.african.ewe
Fiji: fj.soc.culture
Fiji: fj.soc.culture.chinese
Filipino: soc.culture.filipino
France: soc.culture.france
France - Provence: soc.culture.provence
French-Polynesia: alt.culture.french-polynesia
French-English conversation: k12.lang.francais
French: soc.culture.french
Friesland_Frysk: alt.culture.friesland.frysk
Gaelic: soc.culture.gaelic
Galicia: soc.culture.galician
Galiza: soc.culture.galiza
Gaucho, see Latin America, below.
Georgia, Republic of: soc.culture.rep-of-georgia
German-English conversation: k12.lang.deutsch-eng
German: soc.culture.german
Greece: aus.culture.hellenic
Greek: soc.culture.greek
Guarani, see Latin America, below.
Guinea-Conakry: soc.culture.guinea-conakry
Gujarati, see Indian.Gujarati
Haiti: soc.culture.haiti
Hausa: soc.culture.african.hausa
Hawaii: alt.culture.hawaii
Hawaii: soc.culture.hawaii
Hawaii - IRC (Internet Relay Chat): alt.culture.hawaii.irc
Hessian: alt.culture.hessian
Hindi: alt.language.hindi
Hispanic: alt.culture.us.hispanics
Hmong: soc.culture.hmong
Honduras: soc.culture.honduras
Hong Kong: alt.culture.hongkong
Hong Kong: soc.culture.hongkong
Ibo: soc.culture.african.ibo
Icelandic: soc.culture.icelandic
India: soc.culture.indian
India - Delhi: soc.culture.indian.delhi
India - Gujarati: soc.culture.indian.gujarati
India - info: soc.culture.indian.info
India - Jammu-Kashmir: soc.culture.indian.jammu-kashmir
India - Karnataka: alt.culture.karnataka
India - Karnataka: soc.culture.india.karnataka
India - Kashmir: alt.culture.kashmir
India - Kerala: alt.culture.kerala
India - Kerala: soc.culture.indian.kerala
India - Marathi: soc.culture.indian.marathi
India - Muslims: soc.culture.muslims
India - Orissa: soc.culture.indian.orissa
India - Punjab: soc.culture.punjab
India - Rajasthan: soc.culture.indian.rajasthan
India - Telugu: soc.culture.indian.telugu
India - Telugu: alt.language.telegu.literature
India - Uttar-Pradesh: soc.culture.indian.uttar-pradesh
Indian: aus.culture.indian
Indonesia: alt.culture.indonesia
Indonesia: soc.culture.indonesia
Intercultural: soc.culture.intercultural
Iranian: soc.culture.iranian
Iraq: soc.culture.iraq
Ireland, see Eire, above.
Irish, see Eire, above.
Israel: soc.culture.israel
Italy: soc.culture.italian
Jamaican: soc.culture.jamaican
Japan: alt.japanese.text
Japan: sci.lang.japan
Japan: soc.culture.japan
Japan: soc.culture.japan.moderated
Jewish: soc.culture.jewish
Jordan: soc.culture.jordan
Kangwondo, see Korea, below.
Karnataka, see India - Karnataka
Karnataka: alt.culture.karnataka
Kashmir, see India, above.
Kazakhstan: alt.culture.kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: soc.culture.kazakh
Kenya: soc.culture.kenya
Kerala, see also India - Kerala
Klingon (Star Trek): alt.startrek.klingon
(Klingon is a controlled language)
Korea: soc.culture.korean
Korea - Chejudo: han.soc.culture.chejudo
Korea - Chollado: han.soc.culture.chollado
Korea - Chungchongdo: han.soc.culture.chungchongdo
Korea - Kangwondo: han.soc.culture.kangwondo
Korea - Kyonggido: han.soc.culture.kyonggido
Korea - Kyongsangdo: han.soc.culture.kyongsangdo
Korea - Seoul: han.soc.culture.seoul
Kurdish: soc.culture.kurdish
Kuwait: alt.culture.kuwait
Kuwait: soc.culture.kuwait
Kuwait: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated
Kyonggido, see Korea, above.
Kyongsangdo, see Korea, above.
Kyrgyz: soc.culture.kyrgyz
Laos: soc.culture.laos
Latin-America: soc.culture.latin-america
Latin America - Aztec: soc.culture.aztec
Latin America - Gaucho: soc.culture.gaucho
Latin America - Guarani: soc.culture.guarani
Latin America - quechua: soc.culture.quechua
Latvia: soc.culture.latvia
Lebanon: soc.culture.lebanon
Letzebuerger (Luxembourg): alt.letzebuerger
Liberia: soc.culture.liberia
Lithuania: soc.culture.lithuanian
Macedonia: alt.culture.macedonia
Macedonia: alt.culture.macedonia.moderated
Maghreb: soc.culture.maghreb
Magyar: soc.culture.magyar
Malagasy: soc.culture.malagasy
Malawi: alt.culture.malawi
Malay: sg.singnet.language.malay
Malaysia: soc.culture.malaysia
Maldives: alt.culture.maldives
Malta: alt.culture.malta
Mandingo: soc.culture.african.mandingo
Marathi, see India - Marathi
Mexican: soc.culture.mexican
Mexican: soc.culture.mexican.american
Misc: soc.culture.misc
Mongolian: soc.culture.mongolian
Morocco: alt.culture.morocco
Multi-cultural: soc.culture.multicultural
Native: soc.culture.native
Natural languages: comp.edu.languages.natural
Nepal: soc.culture.nepal
Netherlands: bit.lang.neder-1
Netherlands: soc.culture.netherlands
New-Zealand: soc.culture.new-zealand
Nicaragua: soc.culture.nicaragua
Nigeria: soc.culture.nigeria
Nordic: soc.culture.nordic
Occitan: soc.culture.occitan
Oceania: alt.culture.virtual.oceania
Okusi-Ambeno: alt.culture.okusi-ambeno
Orientalism: alt.culture.orientalism
Pacific-Islands: soc.culture.pacific-island
Padania: soc.culture.padania
Pakistan: soc.culture.pakistan
Pakistan - Education: soc.culture.pakistan.education
Pakistan - moderated: soc.culture.pakistan.moderated
Palestine: soc.culture.palestine
Peru: soc.culture.peru
Polish: soc.culture.polish
Portuguese: soc.culture.portuguese
Provence, see France - Provence, above
Prussian: soc.culture.prussian
Puerto-Rico: soc.culture.puerto-rico
Punjab, see India - Punjab, above.
Quebec: soc.culture.quebec
Quechua, see Latin America, above.
Rajasthan, see Indian.Rajasthan, above.
Rhodes: alt.culture.rhodes
Romanian: soc.culture.romanian
Romany: soc.culture.romany
Russian-English conversation: k12.lang.russian
Russian-English translation: fido7.ru.english.translator
Russian: sci.lang.russian
Russian: soc.culture.russian
Russian: soc.culture.russian.moderated
Ruthenian: soc.culture.ruthenian
Sanskrit: humanities.language.sanskrit
Sardinia: soc.culture.sardinian
Saudi Arabia: alt.culture.saudi
Scottish: soc.culture.scottish
Seoul, see Korea, above.
Siberia: soc.culture.siberia
Sicily: soc.culture.sicilian
Sierra-Leone: soc.culture.sierra-leone
Sindhi: soc.culture.sindhi
Singapore: soc.culture.singapore
Singapore: soc.culture.singapore.moderated
Slovak: soc.culture.slovak
Slovenia: soc.culture.slovenia
Somali: soc.culture.african.somali
Somalia: alt.culture.somalia
Somalia: soc.culture.somalia
South-Africa: soc.culture.south-africa
South-Africa - Afrikaans: soc.culture.south-africa.afrikaans
Southasianet: alt.culture.southasianet
Soviet: soc.culture.soviet
Spain: soc.culture.spain
Spain: es.soc.cultura.agenda
Spanish-English conversation: k12.lang.esp.eng
Sri-Lanka: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Swahili: alt.culture.swahili
Swahili: soc.culture.african.swahili
Swiss: soc.culture.swiss
Syria: soc.culture.syria
Taiwan: alt.culture.taiwan
Taiwan: soc.culture.taiwan
Tajik: soc.culture.tajik
Tamil: alt.culture.tamil
Tamil: soc.culture.tamil
Tamil-Eelam: alt.culture.tamil-eelam
Tanji: alt.language.tanji
Tanzania: alt.culture.tanzania
Tasmanian: alt.culture.tasmanian
Tatar: soc.culture.tatar
Telugu, see India - Telugu, above.
Thai: soc.culture.thai
Thrace: alt.culture.thrace
Tibet: alt.culture.tibet
Tibet: soc.culture.tibet
Tuareg: soc.culture.african.tuareg
Tunisia: alt.culture.tunisia
Turkestan: alt.culture.turkestan
Turkish: alt.culture.turkish
Turkish: soc.culture.turkish
Turkish Cyprus: alt.culture.turkish.cyprus
Turkish diaspora: alt.culture.turkish.diaspora
Turkish - Azerbaijan: alt.culture.turkish.azerbaijan
Turkish - moderated: soc.culture.turkish.moderated
Turkmenistan: alt.culture.turkmenistan
Tuva: alt.culture.tuva
Uganda: alt.culture.uganda
Uigar: soc.culture.uigar
Ukrainian: soc.culture.ukrainian
Urdu poetry: alt.lang.urdu.poetry
Uruguay: soc.culture.uruguay
USA: soc.culture.usa
USA - 1960s: alt.culture.us.1960s
USA - 1970s: alt.culture.us.1970s
USA - 1980s: alt.culture.us.1980s
USA - 1990s: alt.culture.us.1990s
USA - Asian-Indian: alt.culture.us.asian.indian
USA - Hispanics: alt.culture.us.hispanics
USA - New York: alt.culture.ny-upstate
USA - Oregon: alt.culture.oregon
USA - Southwest: alt.culture.us.southwest
Uzbek: soc.culture.uzbek
Venezuela: soc.culture.venezuela
Vietnamese: soc.culture.vietnamese
Welsh: alt.culture.welsh
Welsh: soc.culture.welsh
Xhosa: za.culture.xhosa
Xhosa: soc.culture.african.xhosa
Yoruba: soc.culture.african.yoruba
Yugoslavia: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Zaire: alt.culture.zaire
Zambia: alt.culture.zambia
Zimbabwe: soc.culture.zimbabwe
Zulu: soc.culture.african.zulu
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