ELAP staff win research grants
ELAP lecturers Oliver Bond, Friederike Lüpke, Irina Nikolaeva,
and Julia Sallabank have received travel and research grants ...
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Dontations 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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1000 Languages
A new book edited by Peter Austin that describes the language situation across the world. It looks in detail at the eleven global languages, delves into the major languages of each region, and surveys endangered and extinct languages. It is fully illustrated and includes maps and a glossary.
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Language Documentation & Description – Anniversary
Offer
2008 marks the fifth anniversary of Language
Documentation and Description. Five volumes and two
CD-ROMs have now been published in the series.
To celebrate, we offer the full set for a special price
of £30
(plus postage and packaging), which is 40%
off the normal price.
The offer ends on 30 September 2008. LDD 5 is also available
singly.
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Recent events
 International Summer School in Language Documentation & Description
This 2-week summer school was held at the University of Lyon (23 June - 4 July 2008) ... read more ...
 Endangered Languages Week
From 30 Apr - 7 May 2008 we held a week of films, displays, discussions and workshops, attracting over 400 visitors ... read more ...
 Language Documentation & Linguistic
Theory
This conference took
place on 7-8 December to mark 75 years of Linguistics at SOAS
and 5 years of the Endangered Languages Project.
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Workshop on Mande & Atlantic languages
A workshop "Documenting convergence and diversity - Mande and Atlantic languages in contact" will be held at SOAS. 5 - 9 September 2008
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ELDP FUNDING UPDATE 2008-9
Professor Graham Furniss, chair of the ELDP panel is conducting a review of all ELDP grants and administrative procedures. The Board of Arcadia who fund the programme, will discuss the report resulting from the review in November 2008. ELDP is planning to change the timetable to allow candidates more time to submit their grant applications. It is also possible that certain types of grant will be modified and some new grant types added.
This means that ELDP is not advertising a funding round in July/August of this year, as has happened in previous years. There will be a further notice on this website at the end of November 2008 when we have heard the decision of the Arcadia Board.
Application documents for 2007-8 may still be accessed however they should be used for reference only.
OREL: Online Resources for Endangered Languages
OREL is a regularly updated library of 250 annotated and categorised links to websites for people interested in endangered language documentation and revitalisation.
OREL also includes specialist
endangered languages pages in Arabic.
OREL قائمة جديدة لأكثر من 50 مورد إلكترونية منشورة بالعربية مختصة بتهديد اللغات ووصف اللغات المهددة.
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Language endangerment
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.
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