• ELDP training 2010
  The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme training course for 2010 grantees begins on 1st September -- the programme is here. (Peter Austin, 31 Aug 2010)
• New documentation available in ELAR
  The Endangered Languages Archive made three new deposits available in August: materials on Mansi (northwest Siberia) from Gábor Székely, Josh Wilbur's materials on Pite Saami and Simon Musgrave's recordings of Sou Amana Teru (PKA/DJN, 30 Aug 2010)
• 15 language documentations now available
  There are now 15 deposits available for access on the Endangered Languages Archive website. See here for information on how to access the deposits. (Peter Austin, 10 Aug 2010)
• Arapaho language research
  This story discusses the work by University of Colorado student Finn Thye on an ELDP-funded research project on Arapaho, a highly endangered language spoken in Wyoming, USA. (Peter Austin, 08 Aug 2010)
• British Council grant awarded
  Dr Sophie Salffner, a recent graduate from the PhD in Field Linguistics, has been granted a £20,000 award by the British Council together with Dr Imelda Udoh (University of Uyo, Nigeria) and Dr Francis Oyebade (Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Nigeria). ...read more (Alison Kelly, 04 Aug 2010)
• Language Endangerment: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization
  The First Cambridge International Conference on Language Endangerment will be held at University of Cambridge on Friday, 25 March 2011. Peter Austin will be one of the plenary speakers. (Peter Austin, 27 Jul 2010)
• Grant for developing African language teacher training
  Friederike Luepke, Julia Sallabank, Itesh Sachdev and Noriko Iwasaki received GBP22,800 from the SOAS Knowledge Transfer Fund to conduct a survey of the needs of African language teachers in an number of West African countries and develop a training package for teacher trainers. The project involves partnership with the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN), and will be piloted with teacher trainers for the West African vehicular cross-border languages Hausa, Manding and Fulfulde. The package will be of great use to teachers of major African languages, and also help support minority languages. (Friederike Luepke, 19 Jul 2010)
• 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium
  will take place at SOAS from 2-5 September 2010. The Himalayan Languages Symposium was first held at Leiden University in 1995 and is now well-established as an annual open forum for scholars of all aspects of Himalayan languages. Peter Austin will be presenting a paper at this event. ...read more (Alison Kelly, 01 Jul 2010)

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