Multimedia Publications

HRELP publishes various multimedia materials:

Production	Contents	Languages Featured
Spoken Karaim
	The CD-ROM includes stories spoken in Karaim, written texts, a dictionary, video clips, pictures, and Karaim music. These elements are comprehensively hyperlinked to allow the sounds, texts and dictionary to be used in many different ways. The CD uses a navigational metaphor based on the map of the Karaim street in Trakai, Lithuania. System requirements: Windows 2000 or later. For availability, see below. *	The Karaims are a unique group with their own culture, religion, and language (which belongs to the Turkic family), today spoken by just 40 people.
Peter Ladefoged: The Disappearing Sounds of the World’s Languages (version 2)
	The CD-ROM is an interactive presentation of a public lecture by Peter Ladefoged at SOAS in February 2004, including soundtrack, transcription, and graphics. Just released is verson 2 which now runs on Macintosh and has new playability features. System requirements: Windows or Macintosh OSX. For price and availability see below. **	There are recordings of: Hawaiian (Hawaii), Jalapa Mazatec (Mexico), Mpi (Northern Thailand), Nama (Namibia), Newari (Nepal), Nunggubuyu (Northern Australia), Oro Win (Brazil), Toda (Southern India) and !Xóõ (Botswana).
Hearing Voices: languages / speakers
	The CD-ROM contains recordings of speakers of endangered Khoi and San languages, songs by Khoi and San choirs and interviews with Andy Chebanne (University of Botswana) and Peter Austin (School of Oriental and African Studies). The recordings were made by sound artist John Wynne. The CD-ROM was produced by Robert Munro and John Wynne and has featured as a multimedia kiosk at the Museum of Botswana, National Gallery of Namibia and the Brunei Gallery, London. System requirements: Windows XP or Macintosh OSX For price and availability see below. ***	There are recordings of 5 endangered Khoi and San languages of Botswana and Namibia: ||Gana, |Gwi, Jun|'hoa, Naro and !Xóõ.

Prices and availability

• Spoken Karaim* is available free when you purchase Language Documentation and Description, Vol 1. Please refer to the Language Documentation and Description, Vol 1. page for details and order form.

• The Disappearing Sounds of the World’s Languages** costs £10. To order copies, download an order form (RTF) and send it to us at:

  The ELAP Administrator
  The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
  SOAS, University of London
  Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
  London, WC1H OXG
  UK

• Hearing Voices: languages / speakers*** is not currently available.
  Profits from the sale of Hearing Voices: languages / speakers are donated to the Working Group for Indigenous Minorities of Southern Africa (WIMSA).

References

Csató, Éva and David Nathan. 2003. Spoken Karaim. Version S. Institute for the Study of the Languages and Cultures of Africa and Asia, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo and HRELP, SOAS, London [Interactive multimedia CD-ROM]

HRELP. 2006. Peter Ladefoged: The disappearing sounds of the world's endangered languages, (version 2) HRELP, SOAS, London [Interactive multimedia CD-ROM]

Wynne, John and Robert Munro. 2005. Hearing Voices: languages / speakers. HRELP, SOAS, London [Interactive multimedia CD-ROM]