Year: 2017
Project Profile: Amailon: the ritual language of the Nupa Maibi
Today on the ELAR blog, Karen Parker discusses her project documenting the Amailon variety of Meitei, a liturgical genre spoken by the Maibi (also spelled Amaibi). This language is spoken by gender-diverse shamanic priestesses of the Sanamahi tradition in Manipur state, Northeast India. Karen is a 2016 ELDP grantee from La Trobe University in Melbourne, […]
Wang Dehe, Taking Documentation Further
Today on the ELAR blog Katia Chirkova introduces Wang Dehe (王德和) a speaker of the Ersu language and language activist and her close collaborator on her ELDP documentation project. Since 2017 Wang Dehe is a 2017 ELDP grantee himself and the winner of the 2018 Linguistic Society of America‘s (LSA) Excellence in Community Linguistics Award, an award […]
Publication of the First Two Books Written in Pesh
Claudine Chamoreau, one of our ELDP grantees has edited and published the first two books written in Pesh with translations into Spanish, French, and English (at the end of each book). There is also an audiovisual version available for both books; the first publication is now available. Funders for the books and the documentary were: Centre d’Etudes […]
Stories and Songs from Kagate – illustrated picture book
This book is an illustrated collection of stories from the documentation of Syuba (Tibetic, Nepal). The illustrations were made by Ng Xiao Yan as part of an ongoing project at NTU Singapore to connect students in the School of Art, Design and Media with people working on language documentation. The illustrations are beautiful, I’m still […]
The Mawng Ngaralk Mawng Language Website
Ruth Singer is an ELDP grantee who works with the languages Mawng, Kunbarlang and Kunwinjku (a variety of Bininj Kunwok). Her website, Mawng Ngaralk Mawng Language, shares documentation of the Mawng, Kunwinjku and Kunbarlang languages in the form of teaching materials, traditional stories, historical narratives, songs, and a Mawng dictionary. This website was initially funded by an Indigenous […]
Launch of the Mehri Center for Research and Studies
The Mehri Center for Research and Studies was officially launched on October 2nd, 2017 in al-Ghaidhah. It was first conceived by a group of Mehri speakers in eastern Yemen in 2016. This event was the first occasion for people from outside the Centre’s committee to learn about plans for the Centre. Over 100 people from […]
Project Profile: Simon Tabuni on Western Lani
Today on the ELAR Blog, new SOAS MA Language Documentation and Description student Simon Tabuni is talking about his prior work at the Center for Endangered Languages Documentation (CELD) in Manokwari on the Western Lani language. Can you give us some background on the language ecology in your area? According to SIL, there are “more than 250 languages in […]
ELAR Autumn Recap
What a busy autumn we’re having at ELAR! We started September with our anual training for ELDP grantees here in London. We had the opportunity to meet a wide range of excellent researchers from all around the world. Some of them had received ELDP grants to carry out fieldwork for their PhDs, while others are […]
Guardianes de la Lengua: Documentary Series on Latin America’s Endangered Languages
Today on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee Santiago Durante shares on a documentary series about endangered languages which he has been working on for Argentinean public cultural television channel, Canal Encuentro. Please tell us a bit about the documentary series. This documentary series is called Guardianes de la Lengua (guardians of the languages), and it […]
Community Member Bio: Daria Ivanovna Nadeina, Galina Ivanova Kandakova, Alexandra Egorovna Truba & Antonina Vasil’evna Kazarova
Today on the ELAR blog, Natalia Aralova and Brigitte Pakendorf intervew four of their consultants in the Far East of the Russian Federation. Natalia and Brigitte’s documentation project is Documentation of Negidal, a nearly extinct Northern Tungusic language of the Lower Amur. We interviewed four of our Negidal speakers individually, and then compiled their answers […]