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- ELAR occasional seminar
The next ELAR occasional seminar will be on Friday 15th March at 4pm in Room 467. (Peter Austin, 12 Mar 2013)
- APLL6 conference
The full programme for the Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference APLL6 is now available. Online registration can be made via the SOAS online store. We look forward to seeing you in London in May. (Peter Austin, 12 Mar 2013)
- LDD 11 on sale
Volume 11 of Language Documentation and Description is now on sale for GBP 10 (25% off) via the SOAS online store. (Peter Austin, 06 Mar 2013)
- Report on ELAR users
Find out here who is registering to use ELAR and why. (Peter Austin, 28 Feb 2013)
- HRELP at ICLDC in Hawai'i
David Nathan (ELAR), Julia Sallabank (ELAP) and Mandana Seyfeddinipur (ELDP) are presenting papers at the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. (David Nathan, 24 Feb 2013)
- HRELP at Tokyo workshop
Peter Austin and David Nathan gave papers at the International Workshop on Special Genres in and around Indonesia at AA-Ken, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. (David Nathan, 18 Feb 2013)
- Dieri language revitalisation project
Peter Austin is currently participating in a language revitalisation project with the Dieri Aboriginal Corporation in South Australia -- activities and news are described in this blog. (Peter Austin, 17 Feb 2013)
- Drawn from the ground: documenting verbal art in Central Australia (Dr. J. Green) - ELAR Seminar Series
Dr. Jenny Green (Univ of Melbourne) presents her recent work on sand stories of Central Australia, a traditional form of verbal art in which a skilled narrator incorporates speech, song, handsigns, gesture, and drawing to create complex multimodal utterances. Drinks provided afterwards. 12 Feb, 3pm, G51. (Kakia Chatsiou, 07 Feb 2013) See all news items
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Endangered Languages
Today, there are about 6,500 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.
- The Academic Programme (ELAP) runs postgraduate programmes in Field Linguistics and Language Documentation and Description
- The Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants for language documentation
- The Archive Programme (ELAR) archives language documentation and provides technical training
Recent events
ELAR occasional talk series
Jenny Green, ELDP grantee visited HRELP. She gave a talk in the ELAR occasional talk series . Her talk was titled: Drawn from the ground: documenting verbal art in Central Australia
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The fourth International Summer School of the 3L (Lyon, London, Leiden) Consortium was 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 topic was Endangered Languages Revitalisation. (see website for information).
Endangered Languages Week 2012 took place in May. This year's topic is Language, Performance and Culture. Events features included films, talks, and performances about endangered cultures for over a week. Bob Holman, poet, film maker and director of the Endangered Language Alliance presented aspects of his work. Diaspora communities in London performed during the week ... read more ...
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Publications
In our 11th volume of Language Documentation and Description, researchers discuss their experiences in community-oriented fieldwork in Cameroon, Nigeria and Namibia, as well as present the family of Aslian languages and describe dialectal variation
in the tense-aspect-mood system of Sasak.
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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 ...
Podcasts
Browse podcasts by HRELP staff, students and visitors. These are available for listening and download
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ELAP PhD Graduates
In the past three years, eight PhD students have graduated from the Field Linguistics programme in ELAP
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Annual report 2012
HRELP's new Annual Report describes the activities of our project during 2012.
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 المه
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Technical resources
ELAR has a number of technical guides and reviews, including a review of the Zoom H2 audio recorder and a guide to using solar power in the field ... read more ...
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