#Languagedocumentation
📘 New chapter out! We look at how language documentation has evolved - from focusing on single languages to building multilingual corpora, with more collaboration and speaker involvement.
doi.org/10.1515/9783110443011-047

#Linguistics #LanguageDocumentation #LanguageContact #Multilingualism #Africa
May 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Inaugural Lecture from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social Linguistics Professor Julia Sallabank, titled 'Language revitalisation and reclamation: theorising processes and ideologies'
Dec 11 · 5:30 pm GMT

#linguistics #language #Languagerevitalisation #Endangeredlanguages #Languagedocumentation
Prof. Julia Sallabank, who leads RISE UP's SOAS team, will give her inaugural lecture on the pressures facing minoritised languages and what is needed to keep them in use.
Although an in-person event, it will be recorded and available to watch online afterwards.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/inaugural-lecture-series-professor-julia-sallabank"
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Friends and colleagues - please enjoy this talk by Rolando Coto Solano about the goals and methods behind our 'Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies' initiative (ailt.arizona.edu)

#language #technology #languageRevitalization #languageDocumentation #NLP

www.youtube.com/live/owC7nO3...
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Finally added links to all my archived data to my personal/professional page:
<a href="http://laurengawne.com/languagedocumentation/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://laurengawne.com/languagedocumentation/
#getyourlangdocout cc @C_Schreyer (L)
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November 4, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Thanks to @skycornerless the Yolmo basket-weaving book illustrated by Bi Jingying is now available as print-on-demand (you can also read it for free, of course)
Book: <a href="http://laurengawne.com/research/languagedocumentation/yolmo-basket-weaving/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://laurengawne.com/research/languagedocumentation/yolmo-basket-weaving/
Amazon: <a href="http://amzn.to/2BAnoi0" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://amzn.to/2BAnoi0
Yolmo basket weaving
Basket weaving is practiced by the Yolmo of the Lamjung district. Bi Jingying created this book for a student project at NTU in 2014 using images and recordings of Dali Maya Lama talking about and …
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November 4, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Body colouring task (van Staden and Majid 2006) with 5 Piaroa speakers today! Had to adapt the methodology a bit because body parts are inalienable possessed but so much fun!!! #languagedocumentation #fieldwork #needtofinishthatbookchapterIowe
December 1, 2024 at 6:33 AM
With fewer than 60 speakers today, its survival is uncertain. But there's hope: we’re building a Ket text corpus within the INEL project. Stay tuned for updates! #Ket #LanguageDocumentation
April 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM