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: Waima/Roro Dictionary
Today on the ELAR blog we will showcase some highlights from Colleen Hattersley’s ELDP project which resulted in the ELAR collection Waima/Roro Dictionary Phase 2. When French scholars arrived on Yule Island in 1885, they started noting features of the local language. While the long-term goal was evangelisation of the population, the immediate task was […]
ELDP Remote Fieldwork workshop series recap
Leading up to the deadline for the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme’s (ELDP) 2022 grant round, ELDP organised a series of workshops on remote fieldwork. The sessions took place from Monday 13 September 2021 and Friday 17 September 2021, and were based on a series of forthcoming papers in LD&C. All five workshops were recorded and […]
Opening Ceremony at BBAW – Festveranstaltung zur Eröffnung des Zentrums für die Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen
In July 2021 the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) and the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) moved to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin, Germany. On 8 September 2021 the official opening ceremony for the Center for the Documentation of Endangered Languages took place at the BBAW. Im Juli 2021 gaben das […]
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 […]
Documentation of Oubi
This week on the ELAR Blog, wildlife veterinarian Jenny Jaffe writes about documenting Oubi in Côte d’Ivoire while researching chimpanzees in the rainforest of Tai National Park. You can access the resulting ELAR collection here. By Jenny Jaffe As a wildlife veterinarian, I have worked in all kinds of places where the wildlife is not […]
UNTEACH: a Shadow Heroes Festival
We are pleased to announce that ELAR and the SOAS World Languages Institute, together with Shadow Heroes and the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, will present the UNTEACH festival on 3 June 2021. Date: 3 June 2021 Time: 9.45 am – 5.00 pm (BST) Venue: online […]
Community Member Bio: Sara Karami
This week on the ELAR Blog, ELDP grantee Yassaman Choubsaz interviews her research assistant Sara Karami about her collaboration on the project “Western ZEI – Iranian Sign Language in Kermanshah“. A Persian version of the interview is available here. Yassaman: Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your language? Sara: I was weak […]
Behind the scenes: a year of home office at ELAR & ELDP
On the 26th of March 2020 the UK’s first lockdown measures legally came into force, meaning we have now been working from home for an entire year. Read on to find out what the team at ELAR and ELDP has been up to over the past year, what our work looks like behind the scenes, […]
Project Profile: Zapal, an oral literature genre of the Bunaq Lamaknen
Today on the ELAR blog, Antoinette Schapper discusses her project ‘Documenting Zapal among the Bunaq people of Lamaknen in West Timor, Indonesia‘. Antoinette received an ELDP small grant at the University of Cologne. Background Bunaq is a Papuan language spoken in central Timor, straddling the border between independent Timor-Leste and Indonesian West Timor. The Bunaq […]
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 […]