Endangered Languages Projects

Projects associated with HRELP, non-ELDP funded

Agaw Family (Kemant, Khamtanga, Qwarenya)

David Appleyard, SOAS

Since visiting Ethiopia in 1973-74 for an extended period of research I have been engaged in work on various of the Agaw family of languages, several of which are in an endangered position, and in ... more

AHRB Wa Dictionary Project Wa (Parauk)

Justin Watkins and Richard Kunst , SOAS

Wa is a Northern Mon-Khmer language spoken in an area on the border between China and Burma. While Wa remains viable in the short term, the complex and changing political situation in the region ... more

Diyari

Peter Austin, SOAS

Diyari (also misspelled Dieri) is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken in the far north of South Australia along Cooper Creek to the east of Lake Eyre. Peter Austin studied Diyari ... more

Documentation and description of Kuna: a community-based approach to documentation and grammar-writing.

Wikaliler Smith, University of Texas at Austin. 2009-2012.

This project is a response to the limited documentation and description available to the community members of Kuna, a Chibchan language spoken mostly in the Panamanian-Colombian border area, with ... more

Gamilaraay

Peter Austin, SOAS

Gamilaraay (also spelled Kamilaroi) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Kamilaroi people of north-west New South Wales. The language currently has a few elders who speak it, and it is ... more

Guruntum

Phil Jaggar and Andrew Haruna, SOAS and Humboldt University, Berlin

Guruntum is one of a number of small languages spoken in northeastern Nigeria which belong to the Chadic family, most of them under constant pressure from Hausa, with some danger of extinction. ... more

Khumi Chin

Justin Watkins, SOAS

Khumi Chin is the variety of Southern Chin (Tibeto-Burman) spoken in and around Paletwa in the southern tip of Chin State in western Burma (Myanmar), and across the border in adjacent Bangladesh. It ... more

Malyangapa

Peter K Austin

Malyangapa is an Australian Aboriginal language once spoken in the far west of New South Wales. It is related to Wadikali and Yardliyawarra, and belongs to the Yarli group of languages. It is not ... more

Ngamini

Peter Austin, SOAS

Ngamini is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken in the far north of South Australia around Goyder’s Lagoon to the east of Lake Eyre. It is related to Diyari, and belongs to the ... more

Thalanji

Peter Austin, SOAS

Thalanji is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken along the Ashburton River in the north-west of Western Australia. Today it continues to be spoken by an extended family living in ... more

Variation in the TMA system of Bastimentos Creole English, Panama.

Heidi Reid, University of Manchester. 2012-2013.

This project aims, on the one hand, to compile a rich set of digitally recorded speech acts (audio and video), as well as texts and stills, reflecting sociocultural life typical of the 600 speakers ... more