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