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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Tamang: A Cross-Varietal Documentation and Descriptive Study
Thomas Owen-Smith
Documentation of Tamang, including audio, video and texts, descriptions of features shared and diverging between varieties, and a dictionary in Tamang...
Documentation of Archaic Akha, the register of the shaman
Jake Terrell
Documentation of Archaic Akha, the register of the shaman, with a comparison to modern spoken Akha....
Sophie Mu
Description of Pela an endangered language with special focus on the effects of close contact with Zaiwa and Mandarin....
Documentation of Negidal, a nearly extinct Northern Tungusic language of the Lower Amur
Brigitte Pakendorf
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The Gorwaa Noun Phrase: Toward a Description of the Gorwaa Language
Andrew Harvey
Gorwaa is an undocumented language, spoken by approximately 15,000 individuals in Babati District, Manyara Region, Tanzania....
Recording and archiving Barayin (Jalkiya) language data
Joseph Lovestrand
Documentation of Barayin, a Chadic language of Chad....
A Documentation of Fanbyak, a language of Vanuatu
Mike Franjieh
A documentation and description of the highly endangered language of Fanbyak....
Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo
Mikael Oez
Documentation of the Beth Qustan dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic, Turoyo speaking community in Tur 'Abdin, focusing on vernacular tales....
Roberto Herrera Miranda
Maleku, also known as Guatuso, is a Chibchan language of Costa Rica....
Xumi: Documentation of a Highly Endangered Language of South-West China
Katia Chirkova
Studies of two language clusters of multi-ethnic and multi-lingual western Sichuan: (1) Ersu, comprising the mutually unintelligible Ersu, Duoxu, and ...
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