Category: Showcase
Empowering Communities through Education: ELAR Celebrates International Day of Education
As we mark the International Day of Education, the ELAR takes pride in being a trusted repository forlanguage documentation projects that extend beyond preservation to actively empower communities in revitalizing their linguistic heritage. Through various initiatives undertaken by depositors, ELAR hosts educational materials that foster cultural pride and knowledge. Let’s explore some remarkable projects that […]
Illustration for Linguistic Projects
Today on the ELAR blog, linguist and illustrator Lena Pointner tells us about her work creating illustrations for language materials and linguistic stimuli. Some of this work relates to research on the Qaqet language of Papua New Guinea. You can learn more about Qaqet in Birgit Hellwig’s ELAR collection “Language socialization and the transmission of […]
Selim and his shadow
This week on the ELAR Blog, ELAR depositor Janet Watson, Abdullah al-Mahri and Domenyk Eades tell us about the publication of the first children’s book written in Mehri. Mehri is spoken in Yemen and Oman. Explore the Mehri collection in ELAR here. By Abdullah al-Mahri, Janet C.E. Watson and Domenyk Eades – February 2023 We […]
80th anniversary of Franz Boas’ death
80 years ago, on 21 December 1942, pioneer of cultural anthropology Franz Boas died in New York, USA. Boas contributed to a number of fields, amongst them linguistics. Some of his students included Zora Neale Hurston, Gilberto Freyre and Edward Sapir. Boas was born in Minden, Germany, in 1858, and migrated to the US in […]
ELAR showcase: In memory of Wang Dehe
Today on the ELAR blog we commemorate ELDP grantee and ELAR depositor Wang Dehe (王德和) who sadly passed away on 26 September 2022 in Chengdu. Wang was a native speaker of the Ersu language and received the 2018 Linguistic Society of America’s (LSA) Excellence in Community Linguistics Award, an award that recognizes outstanding contributions by […]
Book about the Archive of Languages and Cultures of Ethnic Groups of Thailand (LangArchive-TH)
In 2019 the Archive of Languages and Cultures of Ethnic Groups of Thailand was launched. The project was supported by the Newton Fund. ELAR and Mahidol University collaborated on the creation of the archive. Now a book about creating and managing a digital archive is available from the project. The book titled The ethnic group […]
Western Desert Verbal Arts
On the 26th of February 2021 the Western Desert Verbal Arts Collections were inscribed into the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. The collections were curated in the AMW Register by ELAR depositors Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral, and Jennifer Green. The collection resulting from the Western Desert Special Speech Styles Project, funded by […]
Día de Muertos en las colecciones de ELAR
El día de muertos es una de las festividades más icónicas de México. Se celebra cada año entre el 31 de octubre y el 2 de noviembre, en los festivos católicos todos santos y fieles difuntos. En 2003 la UNESCO declaró las celebraciones del día de muertos de las comunidades indígenas de México Patrimonio Cultural […]
ELAR celebrates UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
Today on the ELAR blog, we celebrate UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by highlighting a few ELAR collections that not only create new audiovisual documents but also incorporate heritage materials in meaningful ways. By Sydney Rey This year’s theme for UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is “Window to the world.” “Audiovisual materials as […]
Njanga Neenga – a Coastal Dialect Dictionary
In August 2019 Jerson Sebastian published ‘Njanga Neenga’ – a Coastal Dialect Dictionary of the variety of Malayalam spoken by fishermen in Kollam, India, which we will present to you in this week’s blog post. About the language The language documented in Jerson Sebastian’s dictionary is spoken by fishermen in Kollam, which is located in […]