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News
- 24th June 2017: New paper added Language Contexts: Syuba, also known as Kagate (Nepal), by Lauren Gawne
- 7th April 2017: Language, land and song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus: full-text copies of all 37 chapters are now available.
Language Documentation and Description
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Alexander Andrason & Tymoteusz Król
Welcome
EL Publishing (ELPub) was established to publish top quality peer-reviewed open access electronic and print journals, multimedia and monographs on documentation and support of endangered languages. We publish on the theory and practice of language documentation, language description, sociolinguistics, language policy, and language revitalisation. All publications are free to download under a CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) licence and are published at no cost to authors ... read more
Books
2nd May 2017: Our first book-length publication, Language Land and Song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus is a collection of 37 chapters by diverse authors, honouring the work of Luise Hercus. Luise Hercus has been a leading figure in the documentation of Australian Indigenous languages for more than 50 years. Her work ranges from salvage studies to detailed descriptions, all richly contextualised by documentation of songs, stories, land and biographies.
For further information, see the volume page, and to download the chapters, go directly to the publication page.
Multimedia
Hearing Voices 2.1 is now available for both Windows and Macintosh (OS X). Hearing Voices, by John Wynne and Robert Munro, is a free interactive multimedia app that features the highly endangered Khoi and San languages of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and Namibia. John Wynne recorded songs, speakers' personal accounts and interviews in 2003 in collaboration with 8 speakers of 5 Khoi/San languages, visual artist Denise Hawrysio and linguist Andy Chebanne. The app features high quality recordings that capture the extraordinary sounds of these ‘click’ languages. It also presents detailed information about the speakers and their lifestyles, their languages, and language endangerment in general.
This new, enhanced version has improved navigation, audio controls, installation, and includes corrections and updates. For further information, and to download the app, go to the Hearing Voices page.