- Andaman research in the news
The research work of Anvita Abbi and her deposit on Great Andmanese in ELAR are mentioned in this recent article by Survival International. (Peter Austin, 27 Jan 2012)
- David Nathan on YouTube
Part 1 is now available of an interview about endangered languages with David Nathan made by Julian Lang of the Center for Indian Community Development (CICD. (Peter Austin, 17 Jan 2012)
- Conferences at SOAS
ELAP staff are co-organising two upcoming conferences: 5th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference (APLL5) and 7th European Australianists Workshop. (Peter Austin, 16 Jan 2012)
- HRELP at LSA meeting
David Nathan and Mandana Seyfeddinipur are attending the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Portland, OR, 5-8 January 2012 (Peter Austin, 05 Jan 2012)
- LDD 10 now available
Volume 10 of Language Documentation and Description is now available to order online at 25% off for orders placed before 31 January 2012. (Peter Austin, 21 Dec 2011)
- Jobs in ELAR
There are two job advertisements one for a Digital Content Curator and one for a Software Developer to work in ELAR - closing date 12th January 2012
(Peter Austin, 07 Dec 2011)
- Workshop in Canberra
David Nathan ran a workshop on Audio Theory and Practice for Language Documentation at the Australian National University on 4th December. (David Nathan, 04 Dec 2011)
- Seminar in Scotland
Peter Austin gave a seminar at the University of Aberdeen on 24th November. (Peter Austin, 22 Nov 2011)
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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 review of the Zoom H2 audio
recorder and a guide to
using solar power in the field ... read more ...
Recent events
 The conference Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3 aimed to bring together researchers working on linguistic theory and language documentation and description, with a particular focus on innovative work on under-described or endangered languages.... read more ...
 Professor Anvita Abbi presented her Leverhulme Puclic Lecture on November 17th 2011. In this lecture Professor Abbi shared her experiences with her ELDP funded documentation project Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese, documenting the highly endangerel language Great Andamanese spoken in Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal... read more ...
Endangered Languages Week took place from 9-14 May. Events included talks, displays, an Open Day, film screenings, lectures and a workshop
... read more ...
 Peter Austin and Jeff Good (University of Buffalo) organised a tutorial session and a poster session at the LSA annual meeting held in Pittsburgh 7-9 January 2011.
Details of the sessions can be found here and include downloadable abstracts, talks and posters
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Publications
 The latest publication is Language Documentation and Description Volume 10 which is collection of papers dealing with language, prosody and music, typology of agreement and word order, tense-aspect-mood marking and semantics of perception verbs .... read more ...
Foundation for Endangered Languages books are also available here, see the FEL books page.
ELAP in Focus
Since 2004 ELAP has graduated around 90 MA students and 7 PhD students. Here you can read about the activities of some of them following their graduation. On a regularly changing basis we will have new information about our former students so check back for updated information in the future.
Former MA Students Sim Tze Wei ...read more... and Takashi Nakagawa ...read more...
Former PhD Students, Stuart McGill ...read more... and Pete Budd ...read more...
3L International Summer School
The 4th 3L International summer school will be hosted by LED-TDR (Langues En Danger-Terrain Documentation Revitalisation), DDL & ICAR CNRS laboratories, University Lyon 2, France, 2-13 July 2012. More details to be announced shortly
Podcasts
Browse podcasts by HRELP staff and visitors. These are available for listening and download
Endangered Languages Week 2011: Peter Austin Interview
Endangered Languages Week 2011: London's Language Landscape
Endangered Languages Week 2011: Gabriela Perez Baez Interview
Endangered Languages Week 2011: Jeff Good Interview
Gresham College:Symposium: Rare and Endangered Languages (16 June 2011)
... listen to more podcasts ...
ELAP PhD Graduates
 In the past three years, eight PhD students have graduated from the Field Linguistics programme in ELAP
... read more ...
OREL
OREL - Online Resources for Endangered Languages - has now been revised updated with 50 new resources. OREL is a library of nearly 400 annotated and categorised links in English and Arabic to websites about endangered language documentation and revitalisation. 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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HRELP Annual Report
 The HRELP Annual Report describes the activities of the Documentation, Academic and Archive programmes ... read more ...
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