Two Ministers responsible for different aspects of Indigenous Affairs in Australia, Jenny Macklin and Peter Garrett, have jointly announced $9.3 million of funding for Indigenous languages. The grand aim is to "to help take 113 indigenous lan...

On the topic of trying to locate material in a small language, I was reading Kaisa Maliniemi's 2009 article on the discovery of new linguistic material in Kven and Sámi in Norway's public records archives. She discusses the fact that the records have...

In 2006 Tom Honeyman began an e-thread on the benefits of and complications relating to using digital video to record natural conversation in a fieldwork setting (see also here, here and here and here). For several years I have been trying to record...

[ from Peter K. Austin Linguistics Department, SOAS 4th December 2009] The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) has established a fieldwork scholarship to sponsor one MA student in the Endangered Languages Academic Programme (ELAP) at SOAS. The...

3 December 2009 Language Documentation and Description Volume 7 is a special issue containing lectures on topics in language documentation and description from the 3L Summer School held at SOAS in June-July 2009. The lectures have been revised and...

[ from Peter K. Austin Department of Linguistics, SOAS] 1 December 2009 On Friday 20th November at Can Ricart in Barcelona, the permanent home of Casa de les Llengues (House of Languages) of Linguamón was officially opened by the Vice-President of...