- Books now on sale
All issues of LDD are on sale at 20% off for the month of May, and all FEL books are 25% off. Go to the online store to order your copies. (Peter Austin, 14 May 2012)
- ELW podcasts
Now available: podcasts about Endangered Languages Week (Peter Austin, 02 May 2012)
- Wolfson scholarship
Current MA in LDD student Charlotte Hemmings has been awarded a prestigious Wolfson Scholarship to undertake a PhD in Field Linguistics next year. Congratulations, Charlotte! (Peter Austin, 26 Apr 2012)
- Travel bursary awarded
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations has awarded PhD student Narayan Sharma a student bursary to present a paper at the DH2012conference, one of only 12 awards internationally. Congratulations, Narayan! (Peter Austin, 25 Apr 2012)
- ELAR now on Twitter and Facebook
You can now follow the activities of ELAR on Twitter at username @ELARarchive and on Facebook at username "ELAR archive" (Peter Austin, 21 Apr 2012)
- BA grant awarded
Julia Sallabank has been awarded GBP 10,000 by the British Academy for a project on "Development of electronic language corpus and pedagogical support materials: Guernsey, Channel Islands". Congratulations, Julia! (Peter Austin, 03 Apr 2012)
- APLL5 conference 4-5 May
ELAP, in collaboration with Oxford Linguistics and Surrey Morphology Group, is organising the 5th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference. Register here (Peter Austin, 02 Apr 2012)
- 7th European Australianists workshop 3-4 April
Candide Simard organised the 7th European Australianists workshop 2012 held at SOAS on 3-4 April. (Peter Austin, 31 Mar 2012)
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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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Endangered Languages Week 2012
Endangered Languages Week is the outreach event of HRELP. This year's topic is Language, Performance and Culture. We will present films, talks, and performances about endangered cultures for over a week. Bob Holman, poet, film maker and director of the Endangered Language Alliance will present aspects of his work. Diaspora communities in London will perform during the week ... read more ...
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 Alumni
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 regular basis we will have new information about our former students so check back for updated information in the future ... read more ...
3L International Summer School
The fourth International Summer School of the 3L (Lyon, London, Leiden) Consortium will be hosted by the LED-TDR team (Langues En Danger-Terrain, Documentation, Revitalisation), members of the DDL and ICAR laboratories University Lumière-Lyon 2 and ENS Lyon, France.
Following the 3L Lyon 2008, 3L London 2009 and 3L Leiden 2010 editions, this 3L Lyon 2012 edition will concentrate on the theme of Endangered Languages Revitalisation. The main objective of Lyon 2012 will be to create a space of reflexion in an academic setting on the growing number of projects of revitalisation around the world. Based on an analysis of current and planned projects, the 3L Lyon 2012 edition will promote a critical outlook on fieldwork in contexts of language revitalisation (see website for information and registration).
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)
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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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