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.
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Mary Chambers
From Ranongga Island, Solomon Islands. Over 150 audio recordings, with written texts, elicitation, and fieldnotes covering traditional and personal st...
Documentation of Isimjeeg Datooga
Richard Thomas Griscom
Audio-visual documentation of Isimjeeg Datooga, including elicited and natural speech, as well as a grammar sketch and dictionary....
Documentation of the Ese Ejja language of the Amazonian region of Bolivia
Marine Vuillermet
Documentation of the Ese Ejja language of the Amazonian region of Bolivia....
Middle Chulym (Ös dili): a Turkic Language of Siberia
David Harrison
Documentation of Middle Chulym. Includes unedited video, audio, photos, lexica, interviews and field notes; processed, edited and annotated recordings...
Desano - audio and video materials
Wilson Silva
Collection of audio and video materials focusing on traditional narratives, songs, and elicitation of word lists and sentences....
Radu Voica
Documentation of Blablanga, an endangered and undescribed Oceanic language with about 1800 speakers on Santa Isabel, in the Solomon Islands....
Language documentation with a focus on traditional culture among the Gavião and Suruí of Rondônia
Dennis Moore
The organizing idea of the project is that of a digital encyclopedia, consisting of recordings of topics of traditional culture, spoken in the native ...
Clan and kin among the Nagovisi of southern Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Bethwyn Evans
Nagovisi is a language of around 5,000 speakers living in south-western Bougainville, an island of Papua New Guinea....
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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