Category: ELAR Blog
The ELAR Blog allows you to delve into our collections behind the scenes. Read interviews with speakers and depositors, explore collection highlights, and find out what a day in the field of our depositors looks like. You can also find recaps of past events and information on projects we collaborated with.
Project Highlight: Documentation of Hawaii Sign Language: Building the Foundation for Documentation, Conservation, and Revitalization of Endangered Pacific Island Sign Languages
This week on the ELAR blog, James Woodward shares a highlight from his ELDP project. Woody is researching Hawai`i Sign Language. On the first HSL teaching materials: This project is currently producing the first Hawai`i Sign Language (HSL) to English dictionary and the first English to HSL dictionary and the first set of teaching materials […]
Entrevista con las hermanas Sonia y Mónica Vita
Esta semana en el blog de ELAR Pablo Fuentes, becario de ELDP, entrevista a las hermanas Sonia y Mónica Vita Manquepi, dos mujeres que pertenecen a la comunidad Pewenche en Butalelbun, localizada en la región Alto Biobío de Chile. Sonia Vita es lingüista y hablante nativa de Chedungun, la variedad de Mapudungun hablada por la gente […]
Community Members Bio: Sisters Sonia and Mónica Vita
This week on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee and ELAR depositor Pablo Fuentes interviews sisters Sonia and Mónica Vita Manquepi, two members of a Pewenche community in Butalelbun, in the Alto Biobío region of Chile. Sonia Vita is a linguist and native speaker of Chedungun, the Mapudungun variant spoken by the Pewenche people. Her sister Mónica, […]
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 […]
The Colour of Words – Bloomsbury Festival 2020
Artist Mary Kuper will present a series of paintings on colour terms in different languages with the title ‘The Colour of Words’ at this year’s Bloomsbury Festival. The Bloomsbury Festival 2020 takes place from the 16th to the 25th of October as a range of digital, outdoor and gallery events. Many of the events […]
The Haydom Language Documentation Training Workshop
By Andrew Harvey and Richard Griscom Of the services that the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides, their Documentation Trainings have to be one of the most valuable. Intensive, practically-oriented crash-courses, trainees often begin the events with little or no knowledge of how to document a language, and will, after many days of hard work […]
ELDP Project Highlight: Documentation of Queyu (Choyo) and its Cultural Traditions
Today on the ELAR blog, we are featuring ELDP grantee Xuan Guan’s project ‘Documentation of Queyu (Choyo) and its Cultural Traditions‘. Queyu is an understudied and underdocumented Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. Queyu belongs to the Qiangic branch, with approximately 6,000~7,000 speaker population. Xuan’s ELAR collection ‘Documentation of Queyu (Choyo) and […]
On sociolinguistic fragility, language vitality, and changing patterns of multilingualism: The linguistic landscape of Babuyan Claro
This week on the ELAR Blog, ELDP Grantee Kristina Gallego writes about the linguistic landscape of Babuyan Claro. Kristina’s ELAR Collection ‘Consequences of contact: Documenting Ibatan within the multilingual landscape of Babuyan Claro’ can be accessed here. By Kristina Gallego Babuyan Claro is an island community in the far north of the Philippines, and it is […]
What’s new at virALLanguages?
A few weeks ago we introduced a new SOAS World Languages Institute project on the ELAR Blog: virALLanguages. Before the ELAR Blog goes on its summer break, here’s an update on how virALLanguages has evolved over the last couple of months. virALLanguages is a volunteer-run project initiated by the SOAS World Languages Institute and the KPAAM-CAM […]