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ONLINE RESOURCES FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

About OREL


OREL: ONLINE RESOURCES FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

OREL - Online Resources for Endangered Languages - is a library of nearly 400 annotated and categorised links to web resources for those revitalising or documenting endangered languages. We aim to link to a wide variety of resources helping with all aspects of language revitalisation and documentation, from technical and organisational issues, to the ethics and law of language diversity, to the practicalities of funding the process. We also seek to link to educational resources that explain the issues at stake in language endangerment, or provide particularly illustrative examples of endangerment, documentation, or revitalisation. OREL is also available in Arabic.

OREL was developed and is maintained by Lameen Souag. It was initiated and is sponsored by ELAR, the Endangered Languages Archive.

If a site that is useful or valuable to you is missing from the list, please email the link to lameens@hotmail.com. The site may be in any language, but a short description in English would be appreciated.

Update history:

  • Updated 15 June 2010. A total of 50 sites added and 14 removed, as follows:
    English:
    Added: 36
    Removed: 9
    Current size: 289
    Former size: 262
    Net increase: 27
    % increase: 10%
    Arabic:
    Added: 14
    Removed: 5
    Current size: 89
    Former size: 80
    Net increase: 9
    % increase: 10%
  • Updated 5 January 2009. A total of 43 sites added and 33 removed; more than 18% of the English links and 38% of the Arabic ones have had their content updated.
  • Updated 23 March 2007, with a total of 242 English and 80 Arabic resources. 4 broken links were removed.
  • OREL was launched on 22 November 2006 with 178 resources.

OREL is maintained by Lameen Souag.