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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Documentation of Amazonian Kichwa (Upper Napo)
Karolina Grzech
A documentation of an Amazonian Kichwa variety spoken in the upper course of the Napo River, between Tena and Chontapunta, with data collected in 2013...
Radu Voica
Documentation of Blablanga, an endangered and previously undescribed Oceanic language with 1150 (2008) speakers on Santa Isabel, in the Solomon Island...
Sand stories and sign languages from Central Australia
Jenny Green
Documenting Arandic verbal art (signs, song and string stories) in Central Australia....
Singpho Language of North East India (including Turung)
Stephen Morey
Languages from Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, India. 1200 audio files, transcriptions and some English translations; covering songs, ceremonies, customs...
Kofán Collaborative Project: Collection of Audio-Video Materials and Texts
Scott AnderBois
Acknowledgement To refer to any data from the corpus, please cite the corpus in this way: AnderBois, Scott and Wilson Silva. 2018. Kofán Collaborati...
Roberto Herrera Miranda
This project aims at documenting phonological and morphosyntactic variation found among a significant number of speakers of all ages in the three Male...
Sarah Stewart
An oral studies project in which Zoroastrians speak about their lives before and after the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Topics inclu...
Documentation of Nahuatl Knowledge of Natural History, Material Culture, and Ecology
Jonathan Amith
Documenting the knowledge of natural history, material culture and ecology of the Nahuatl people living in the Municipality of Cuetzalan, Puebla, Mexi...
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 Enxet documentation project
John Elliott
Enxet Sur is an Enlhet-Enenlhet (Maskoyan) language of roughly 4,000 speakers spread across several communities in the department of Presidente Hayes ...
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