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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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...
Preliminary Documentation of Macau Sign Language
Felix Yim Binh Sze
Documentation of Macau Sign Language....
Tonsawang: a collaborative multimedia project documenting an endangered language of North Sulawesi
Timothy Brickell
Documenting the Tonsawang/Tombatu language of Indonesia....
Peter Sercombe
Documentation includes word lists, stories, articles relating to Eastern Penan circumstances (especially, but not only, regarding language and languag...
Causality Across Languages: Cabécar (Chibchan)
Elisabeth Verhoeven
Audio and video recordings collected from 12 Cabécar speakers as part of the Causality Across Languages project....
Documentation of five Zoquean languages spoken in Mexico: Jilotoltec
Roberto Zavala-Maldonado
El jitotolteco (JIT), Chiapas, es una lengua mixe-zoqueana que pertenece a la rama zoqueana. En la rama zoqueana existen tres divisiones: tres lenguas...
Documentation of Dâw, a Nadahup language of Brazil
Patience Epps
Documentation of Dâw, a Nadahup language of the northwest Amazon....
Nana Agyeman
Audio, video and text corpus of Effutu, a severely under-documented Guang (Kwa) language from coastal Ghana....
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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