Links

The following websites provide insight into endangered languages and language documentation efforts. These links are being provided for informational purposes only; The GBS bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links.

 

General information

• Endangerd Languages Project
• Languages in Danger 

Institutional Information

• UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages
• Endangered languages and linguistic diversity in the European Union

Newspaper articles

• National Geographic: Saving dying languages
• NY Times: World’s Languages Dying Off Rapidly

Multimedia

• Movie „The Linguists“
• Project “Last Whispers”
• CNN Interactive website on endangered langues
• Field Notes – Podcast about linguistic fieldwork
• ILARA – Institut des Langues Rares : online resources
• ILARA – Institut des Langues Rares : programme
• Linguistic and language podcasts
• PARADISEC Podcasts – Toksave Culture Talks
• Language Documentation, Acquisition and Socialization: Widening the Evidential Base (Birgit Hellwig)

 

Catalogues and maps

• Glottolog
• Mutuzirkin
• Languages in Danger: Maps

Language Archives and Documentation programmes:

• Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network
• Spracharchive, Mitglieder des DELAMAN-Netzwerks
• AILLA – Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
• Alaska Native Language Archive
• California Language Archive
• CoRSAL – Computational Resource on South Asian Languages
• Digital Himalaya
• DOBES – Documentation of Endangered Languages
• American Philosophical Society – Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
• ELAR – Endangered Languages Archive SOAS
• Kaipuleohone Language Archive (University of Hawai’i)
• Language Archive Cologne
• Native American Languages Collection
• PARADISEC – Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
• Pangloss Collection
• Rosetta Project
• RWAAI – Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (Lund University)
• Shaetlan Project
• SIL Language and Culture Archives
• The Language Archive (Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik)
• World Oral Literature Programme
• Archiving for Future
• Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

NGOs

• Endangered Alphabets Project
• Wikitongues – language documentation and revitalization
• Living Tongues Institute for endangered languages
• Translators without borders

Postgraduate Programs:

• University Leiden: Language Description and Documentation
• University of Hawai’i at Manoa: Language Documentation and Conservation