School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London is the leading Higher Education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.

SOAS, University of London Projects

Documentation of five Zoquean languages spoken in Mexico: Chiapas Zoque, Jitotoltec, San Miguel Chimalapa, Santa Maria Chimalapa, Highland Popoluca

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Urgent video documentation of Ecuadorian Highland Quichua (a Quechuan language): focus on regions of imminent language shift

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Documenting Konda and Kais: two endangered and less-known Trans-New Guinea languages of South Bird's Head of New Guinea

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Documentation of Ifira-Mele and Emae, two Polynesian languages of Vanuatu

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Placing the Dead and Nurturing the Living: Documentation of house- construction and terrace farming in Zargulla, an endangered Omotic language

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Documentation of Sri Lanka Portuguese

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Documentation of Matlatzinca, an Oto-Manguean language of Mexico

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Documentation of Negidal, a nearly extinct Northern Tungusic language of the Lower Amur

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Documenting the Mongol Uriankhai dialect and culture of Mongolia

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