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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.

Recently updated collections

Arapaho text corpus

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...

A dictionary of Eastern Penan

Peter Sercombe

Documentation includes word lists, stories, articles relating to Eastern Penan circumstances (especially, but not only, regarding language and languag...

Documentation of Bésiro

Pierric Sans

Documentation and description in an attempt to classify Bésiro, spoken by the Chiquitanos in the Bolivian lowlands....

Comprehensive documentation and archiving of Teleut, Eushta-Chat, and Melets Chulym: three areally adjacent critically endangered Turkic languages of Siberia.

Andrey Filchenko

Documenting three critically endangered Turkic languages native to South-Western Siberia in Russia: Bachat Teleut, Eushta-Chat (Tomsk Tatar), and Mele...

Comprehensive documentation and archiving of Teleut, Eushta-Chat, and Melets Chulym: three areally adjacent critically endangered Turkic languages of Siberia.

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....

Documentation of Mavea

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...

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....

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...

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....

Documenting Iranxe-Manoki, an isolate of Brazilian Amazonia

Bernat Bardagil-Mas

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Throughout the site you see ELAR's access protocol categories, like this: O U S . Materials marked as O U S can be accessed by anyone, even users who have not registered with ELAR. Materials marked as O U S can be accessed by any registered user of ELAR who has agreed to the Terms and Conditions of using ELAR. Materials marked as O U S are restricted in access, and registered users can apply for access to these resources.

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About ELAR accounts

Why apply for an account?
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.

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