The Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) is a digital repository preserving and publishing endangered language documentation materials from around the world. The materials we hold are digital, and are freely available (after free registration).
ELAR was originally funded by Arcadia
and is part of the Library
of SOAS University of London.
Click a region above to view browsable collections. To see all collections, click 'Search' at the centre.
Tonsawang: a collaborative multimedia project documenting an endangered language of North Sulawesi
Timothy Brickell
Documenting the Tonsawang/Tombatu language of Indonesia....
Documenting Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso) language and music, with special attention to tone
Laura McPherson
Audio and video recordings of spoken Seenku as well as the musical adaptation of Seenku, both through sung texts and instrumental surrogate languages,...
Investigating an undocumented sign language in a Chatino speech/sign community
Lynn Hou
Linguistic and sociolinguistic documentation of Chatino Sign, an undocumented emergent sign language....
Documentation and Description of the Hrusso Aka Language of Arunachal Pradesh
Vijay D'Souza
This is a collection of language resources in the form of Audio, video and text materials in Hrusso Aka....
Videography-Based Documentation of Kere (Papua New Guinea) in Sociocultural Perspective
Andrea Berez
Kere is a Chimbu-Waghi language of Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea....
Kagate (Syuba), an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal
Lauren Gawne
A multimedia documentation of Kagate, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal....
A documentation of Kujireray and research into its nominal and verbal derivational morphology
Rachel Watson
Documenting Kujirerai, a Jola language spoken in the Casamance region of Senegal, spoken by only a few hundred people in the village of Brin and the s...
Andrey Filchenko
Documentation and analysis of two endangered languages of Western Siberia, Russia: Eastern Khanty and Southern Selkup....
Dictionary of Korana (!Ora), a South African Khoesan language of the KHOE family
Menan du Plessis
A dictionary of Korana (!Ora), a South African Khoesan language of the KHOE family....
Documenting Language and Interaction in Kula
Nicholas Williams
Documentation of Kula, an endangered non-Austronesian language spoken in the eastern highlands of Alor, Indonesia....
Textual and Lexical Documentation of Ixcatec, Oaxaca, Mexico
Denis Costaouec
Documenting Ixcatec, a highly endangered Otomanguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico....
Documentation of Isthmus Zapotec
Juan José Bueno Holle
Documenting Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken in and around Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico....
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Anyone can browse the ELAR catalogue of endangered language collections and can learn about the materials ELAR holds.
To listen and watch the recordings in the collections you need to register as a user and agree to the Terms and Conditions of using ELAR. Registration is free, and after registration all materials are openly accessible to you. Some sensitive materials require special access permissions, and as a registered user you can apply for access to these resources.
To apply for an account, you must provide your real name. We do not allow anonymous accounts or fictitious identities. Accounts for ordinary user access are automatically granted on application.
If you forgot your username or password, please contact elararchive@soas.ac.uk