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The Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, London

  • Choguita Rarámuri description and documentation
    Gabriela Caballero
    ... audio and video recordings with transcriptions and photos of speakers from Chihuahua, Mexico. Includes myth and historical narratives, oratory, interviews, conversations, activities, ritual song and prayer, language teaching.
    URCS
  • Pite Saami: documenting the language and culture
    Joshua Karl Wilbur
    ... audio and video recordings of Pite Saami speakers, northern Sweden, with transcriptions and translations in Swedish and English. Topics include reindeer roundup and traditional handicrafts.
    URCS
  • Ayutla Mixe documentation data
    Rodrigo Romero Méndez
    ... around 150 audio and video recordings of speakers from Oaxaca, Mexico, with transcriptions. Includes texts of legends/folk tales and local histories, folk definitions and elicitation.
    URCS
  • Audio recordings and images of Bierebo speakers
    Peter Budd
    ... speakers of the Bonkovio dialect of Bierebo, from Epi Island, Vanuatu. Over 120 audio files, plus images and translations of narratives into Bislama. Genres include folk tales, personal stories, histories, and elicitation.
    URCS
  • Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese
    Anvita Abbi
    ... Great Andamanese is a highly endangered language of the Andaman Islands, south-east of India in the Bay of Bengal.
    URCS
  • Unangam Tunuu (Aleut language) Conversation Corpus
    Alice Taff
    ... around 250 audio and video recordings of spontaneous conversation between fluent speakers of Unangam Tunuu, spoken on the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Includes time-aligned transcriptions and English translations.
    URCS
  • Language endangerment in the Upper-Lozva Voguls
    Gábor Székely
    ... audio from 10 speakers of Mansi, spoken in Ivdel, North-West Siberia, with 18 thematic vocabulary lists, including animals, plants, body parts, dwelling and hunting.
    URCS
  • Documentation of Kubokota
    Mary Chambers
    ... from Ranongga Island, Solomon Islands. Over 150 audio recordings, with written texts, elicitation, and fieldnotes covering traditional and personal stories and everyday events and activities.
    URCS
  • Auslan Corpus
    Trevor Johnston
    ... Auslan (Australian Sign Language) is the native signed language of the deaf community in Australia. The collection includes video recordings of naturalistic, controlled and elicited Auslan. Within a generation the language community may cease to be viable.
    URCS
 
Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese
Featured collection

We recently released Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese, a collection of audio and video recordings, texts, books, articles and images. As well as linguistic description and analysis, there are narratives, folktales, conversations, discussions, songs, ancestral knowledge, language learning resources, photos, and paintings by children. Together, these provide a linguistic and social ethnography of the Great Andamanese people.

We have provided an accessible navigational aid to the collection, signaling our new directions for collection presentation.

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ELAR preserves and disseminates digital documentation of endangered languages around the world
 
ELAR is funded by Arcadia and hosted at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London