- Documentation training course in Tokyo
Peter Austin and David Nathan, together with former ELAP post-doctoral fellow Anthony Jukes, ran an intermediate level training course on language documentation at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2-5 February 2009. (Peter Austin, 05 Feb 2010)
- HRELP welcomes Jean McGarry
Jean McGarry (formerly Tullett) has joined ELDP as its new Administrator. Some people will know her from her previous dedicated work with ELDP. Welcome back Jean! (David Nathan, 18 Jan 2010)
- KWEF grant
Stuart McGill has been awarded a field trip grant by the Kay Williamson Educational Foundation to conduct research on a number of West Kainji languages of northwest Nigeria from January-April 2010. (Stuart McGill, 11 Jan 2010)
- February Workshop on Sustainability
Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge & Sustainability will explore sustainable approaches to endangered languages and to research practices. 27 Feb 2010 at SOAS. Keynote speaker: Lenore Grenoble. See call for papers and details. (David Nathan, 23 Dec 2009)
- Launch of LDD-R centre at Lyon
On 25 November Julia Sallabank represented HRELP/SOAS at the launch of a new cross-disciplinary research centre on 'Endangered languages: fieldwork, documentation, revitalisation' (LED-TDR) at the University of Lyon, one of our 3L partners. The programme is available via the Lyon DDL website. (Julia Sallabank, 18 Dec 2009)
- HRELP at WOL Workshop
Peter K. Austin and David Nathan are both presenting papers at the World Oral Literature workshop, Cambridge University 15-16th December. The programme is available here. (Peter Austin, 02 Dec 2009)
- Point Sud launch
Friederike Luepke participated in the launch of the Point Sud Centre for Research on Local Knowledge in Bamako, Mali from 23rd to 27th November. The Centre plans to promote the establishment of a truly postcolonial academic community in Africa. (Peter Austin, 29 Nov 2009)
- HRELP at ELIIP workshop
David Nathan represented the Endangered Languages Project at the Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure (ELIIP) workshop. David also gave a talk in the Utah Linguistics Department on multimedia in endangered languages research. (Peter Austin, 29 Nov 2009) See all news items
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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 guide to using solar power in the field and a review of the new Zoom H4n audio recorder ... read more ...
OREL
OREL - Online Resources for Endangered Languages - is a library of about 350 annotated and categorised links in English and Arabic to websites for people interested in endangered language documentation and revitalisation. Over 40 new sites were added and all listed sites were checked and updated.
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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Recent events
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 ...
3L Summer School 2009: the 2nd International  Summer School in Language Documentation & Description ... Group photo ... read more ...
 HRELP
supported
an exhibition Living Language at
East Gallery in Stratford (home of the next Olympics), which
celebrates the International Year of Languages and the diversity
of London's languages and cultures ...
read more ...
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Endangered Languages Week 2010
 Endangered
Languages Week 2010 presents a variety of talks, displays, discussions, films, lectures and workshops. Running from Feb 22-27, this year's theme is sustainability: can the world's languages be sustained, and if so which ones, and how? And can the now-vigorous activities in documenting and supporting languages continue long enough to make a difference? ... read more ...
3L Summer School 2010 in Leiden
 The 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
 The HRELP Annual Report for 2009 is now available. It covers the activities of the Documentation, Academic and Archive programmes ... read more ...
HRELP at Saami Winter School
The
Saami Language Documentation and Revitalization school is designed for students, scholars, language teachers and activists. It takes place at Bodø (Norway), 1-11 March 2010. Teachers include ELAR's David Nathan who will run courses on audio recording and multimedia language support. Registration is free and places are still available - see the programme and registration details.
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.
Publications
Volume 7 of Language Documentation and Description will be available early in 2010. 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. Until 31 January 2010 only, LDD7 is available on pre-order at a 25% discount ... read more ...
LDD Volume 6 is the current issue of our Working Papers. It has papers on:
- language documentation methodology
- sociolinguistics and pedagogy for endangered languages
- software applications
The volume comes with a free DVD of the HRELP 2009 Annual Public Lecture, presented by Bernard Spolsky of Bar-Ilan University ... read more ...
Foundation for Endangered Languages books are available here on the FEL books page.
New ELAP PhD graduate
Dr Stuart McGill is the latest ELAP PhD student to graduate with a PhD in Field Linguistics.
His research consists of a documentation and description of Cicipu, a Kainji language spoken in northwest Nigeria.
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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 ...
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