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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Wa'ikhana Linguistic and Cultural Archive
Kristine Stenzel
Wa'ikhana (Piratapuyo) is an Eastern Tukanoan language spoken in Brazil and Colombia. This collection of thirty-eight audio and video recordings of Wa...
Simeon Floyd
A video corpus of informal speech, narrative and cultural demonstrations in Ecuadorian Highland Quichua, sampling a range of speakers in rural agricul...
Documentation of Northern Prinmi oral art, with a special focus on ritual speech
Henriëtte Daudey
A Documentation of Northern Prinmi oral art, with a special focus on ritual speech...
Communicative uses of Tehuelche (Aonekko 'a'ien) - a language from Patagonia
Javier Domingo
Documenting communicative uses and everyday interactions of Aonekko ‘a’ien, the Patagonian language first documented by Magellan in 1520 and curre...
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...
The documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian: Mehri
Janet Watson
An audio-visual documentation of the Mehri language spoken in Oman and Yemen....
Documentation of the Ese Ejja language of the Amazonian region of Bolivia
Marine Vuillermet
The deposit consists of audio and video recordings with transcriptions of Ese Ejja, an endangered language spoken in the Bolivian and Peruvian lowland...
Caijia: Cross-dialectal documentation of a highly endangered language in Guizhou Province of China
Lü Shanshan
The deposited data includes digital audio an video recordings covering various topics (narratives, folk songs, conversations, handcraft activities), p...
Narayan Sharma
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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