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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Language documentation with a focus on traditional culture among the Gavião and Suruí of Rondônia
Dennis Moore
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Documentation of Nasal: An overlooked Malayo-Polynesian isolate of southwest Sumatra
Bradley McDonnell
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The documentation of Modern South Arabian languages: Bathari
Miranda Morris
A collection of personal narratives, poems and songs in Bathari....
Recording and archiving Barayin (Jalkiya) language data
Joseph Lovestrand
Documentation of Barayin, a Chadic language of Chad....
Documentation of Negidal, a nearly extinct Northern Tungusic language of the Lower Amur
Brigitte Pakendorf
This project focuses on the documentation of Negidal, a highly moribund Northern Tungusic language nowadays spoken by only a handful of individuals on...
Zaghawa-Wagi: Towards documenting the Sudanese dialectal variant of Zaghawa
Isabel Compes
Zaghawa is said to be spoken by a total of 169.000 speakers in Sudan (North Darfur state) and Chad....
A first appraisal of Bainouk and its main contact language Mandinka
Friederike Lüpke
A first step towards the documentation of Bainouk....
Sand stories and sign languages from Central Australia
Jenny Green
Documenting Arandic verbal art (signs, song and string stories) in Central Australia....
The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Shehret
Janet Watson
An auto-visual documentation of the Shehret language spoken in Dhofar, Oman, which includes data from three dialect groups of Shehret: western, centra...
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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