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The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at SOAS

International Summer School in Language Documentation & Description

This 2-week summer school will be held at the University of Lyon (23 June - 4 July 2008). Programme details

Note: applications has now closed.

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Endangered Languages Week

Endangered Languages Week at SOAS.

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.

Dr Irina Nikolaeva awarded

ELAP lecturer Dr Irina Nikolaeva has won the Wings WorldQuest 2008 Women of Discovery Award ... read more ...

ELAP PhDs graduate

Dr Serge sagna

ELAP students Serge Sagna (left) and Henrik Bergqvist (below) are the first ELAP PhD students to graduate, following the submission of their dissertations on Gújjolaay Eegimaa and Lakandon Maya. Dr Henrik Bergqvist

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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.