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SOAS, University of London

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.

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SOAS, University of London Projects

Language documentation with a focus on traditional culture among the Gavião and Suruí of Rondônia (Brazil)

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Documenting the Sherbro language and culture of Sierra Leone

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Empowering Indigenous youth to create a comprehensive pan-varietal, ethnobiological, anthropological record of Kun-barlang through training in low-cost language documentation technology

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Comprehensive documentation and archiving of Teleut, Eushta-Chat, and Melets Chulym: three areally adjacent critically endangered Turkic languages of Siberia

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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SOAS, University of London Projects

Language documentation with a focus on traditional culture among the Gavião and Suruí of Rondônia (Brazil)

Documenting the Sherbro language and culture of Sierra Leone

Empowering Indigenous youth to create a comprehensive pan-varietal, ethnobiological, anthropological record of Kun-barlang through training in low-cost language documentation technology

Comprehensive documentation and archiving of Teleut, Eushta-Chat, and Melets Chulym: three areally adjacent critically endangered Turkic languages of Siberia

A documentation of Bati language and oral traditions

The Endangered Papuan Languages of Merauke-Indonesia: ethnobiological and linguistic documentation

Documenting the Mongol Uriankhai dialect and culture of Mongolia

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

Documentation of Matlatzinca, an Oto-Manguean language of Mexico