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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Jonas Lau
Initial documention of Àbèsàbèsì (known in literature as Akpes), a minority language of South-Western Nigeria....
Lisa Conathan
English-Arapaho and Arapaho-English analytical and cultural dictionary with morphological analysis, etymology (Proto-Algonquian and Proto-Algic roots)...
Initial Documentation of Na'ahai, a language of Malakula, Vanuatu
Anastasia Riehl
Documentation of Na'ahai in the form of a basic grammatical sketch as well as a transcribed and translated collection of audio and video recordings of...
Peter Sercombe
Documentation includes word lists, stories, articles relating to Eastern Penan circumstances (especially, but not only, regarding language and languag...
Pierric Sans
Documentation and description in an attempt to classify Bésiro, spoken by the Chiquitanos in the Bolivian lowlands....
The Antia Whistling Language: documenting language use and language activism
Sophie Salffner
A Greek whistling language used by the people of Antia in southern Euboia, Greece, to communicate with one another in their mountainous village....
Andrey Filchenko
Documenting three critically endangered Turkic languages native to South-Western Siberia in Russia: Bachat Teleut, Eushta-Chat (Tomsk Tatar), and Mele...
Documenting MalakMalak, an endangered language of Northern Australia
Dorothea Hoffmann
... MalakMalak is a highly-endangered northern Daly language spoken in the Daly River area in north-western Australia....
Andrey Filchenko
Documenting three critically endangered Turkic languages native to South-Western Siberia in Russia: Bachat Teleut, Eushta-Chat (Tomsk Tatar), and Mele...
Valérie Guérin
This project aims to determine the spheres and range of the Mafea language’s use, on Mafea island and in the newly established communities on Espiri...
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....
The documentation of Ambel, an Austronesian language of Eastern Indonesia
Laura Arnold
Ambel is an Austronesian language spoken in the Raja Ampat archipelago. This collection is a first audio-visual documentation of Ambel, containing ove...
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