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  • 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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Endangered Languages

Today, there are about 6,500 human languages. Half of them are under threat of extinction within 50 to 100 years. The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at SOAS, University of London, supports research, training, and archiving for endangered languages throughout the world.

Technical resources

ELAR has a number of technical guides and reviews, including a recent review of the Zoom H2 audio recorder and a guide to using solar power in the field ... read more ...

Recent events

Endangered Languages Week 2010Endangered Languages Week 2010 , Feb 22-27, presented a variety of talks, displays, discussions, films, lectures and workshops ... read more ...



Teaching linguistic fieldwork and sustainability. This workshop, on 4th December, focused on practical language/fieldwork issues. Jointly organised with the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.

Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory 2. This conference brought together researchers working on linguistic theory and language documentation and description, with a focus on underdescribed or endangered languages ... read more ...

OREL

OREL - Online Resources for Endangered Languages - has now been revised updated with 50 new resources. OREL is a library of nearly 400 annotated and categorised links in English and Arabic to websites about endangered language documentation and revitalisation.

OREL includes specialist endangered languages pages in Arabic.

OREL قائمة جديدة لأكثر من 80 مورد إلكترونية منشورة بالعربية مختصة بتهديد اللغات ووصف اللغات المهددة.

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New ELAP PhD graduate

Dr Peter Budd is the latest ELAP PhD student to graduate with a PhD in Field Linguistics.

His research is on the Bierebo language of Epi island, Central Vanuatu ... read more ...

New publications

Volume 7 of Language Documentation and Description is now available. It contains lectures from the 3L Summer School together with additional papers, and represents a state-of-the-art survey of the theory and practice of language documentation. ... read more ...

Foundation for Endangered Languages books are also available here at reduced prices, see the FEL books page.


3L Summer School 2010 in Leiden

3L Summer SchoolThe Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is proud to host the third 3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description, from Monday, 5 July to Saturday, 17 July 17, 2010 ... read more ...


HRELP Annual Report

HRELP Annual Report 2009The HRELP Annual Report describes the activities of the Documentation, Academic and Archive programmes ... read more ...


FEL Scholarship

The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) has established a fieldwork scholarship to sponsor one SOAS MA student. The scholarship, funded by FEL book sales, will support one student to undertake fieldwork during 2010 in Guernsey on the endangered language Guernesiais.


Donations to HRELP

HRELP has been donated an engraved jade plaque by OKMA (an association of Mayan linguists), as well as books and CDs on endangered Brazilian languages from research students at Museu Goeldi in Brazil ... read more ...