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.
Roberto Herrera Miranda
Maleku, also known as Guatuso, is a Chibchan language of Costa Rica....
Jewish Iraqi spoken language documentation
Eli Timan
... personal stories, songs and descriptions of life in Iraq in the first half of the twentieth century, as told by Jewish Iraqi informants in London,...
Documentation and Grammatical Description of Komo
Tesfaye Negash
Documenting Komo, an endangered language spoken in the Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia....
Documentation and Description of Kove
Hiroko Sato
Corpus, grammar, and small dictionary of Kove, spoken in Papua New Guinea....
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....
Tonsawang: a collaborative multimedia project documenting an endangered language of North Sulawesi
Timothy Brickell
Documenting the Tonsawang/Tombatu language of Indonesia....
The Endangered Papuan Languages of Merauke-Indonesia: ethnobiological and linguistic documentation
I Wayan Arka
Ethnobiological documentation of the Papuan languages Marori and Smärky Kanum....
James Slotta
This project documents the dialects and languages spoken in a portion of the Yupna region 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