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Call for Papers: New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages/Varieties NEWCON 2020

NEWCON is an international linguistics conference organized by the Linguistics Department of the University of Zadar, the SOAS World Languages Institute, Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning and CIDLes.

24th January 2020

Mandana Seyfeddinipur to speak at Digital Modern Languages seminar series

Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of SWLI and Head of the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) at SOAS, will speak at the Digital Modern Humanities seminar series at KCL.

25th June 2019

LAPI 2019 - Conference programme now available

LAPI 2019 - Endangered Languages and Language Varieties in the Iberian Peninsula - will take place from 4-5 July 2019.

5th June 2019

Endangered languages poetry anthology to be published this year

We’re pleased to announce that “Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages” will be published in hardback and e-book on 5 September 2019.

4th April 2019

Languages in an Open World - LOW 2019 - Call for papers

International conference on “Languages in an Open World” will take place from 20-22 November 2019 at the ECML in Graz, Austria.

1st April 2019

Artist’s illustrations highlight SOAS World Languages Institute’s work on Southbank’s Endangered Poetry Project

A series of illustrations have been produced by the artist Mary Kuper to highlight endangered languages, as part of the Southbank’s Endangered Poetry Project – in which the SOAS World Languages Institute is taking part.

13th August 2018

Grambank secures funding for one more year

The SOAS Grambank project is now entering its second year, and the team are pleased to announce that they have secured a further year of funding.

15th June 2018

Launching CKLD: the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Linguistic Diversity and Language Documentation

The CKLD is a virtual distributed centre comprising institutions at the universities of London (ELAR/SWLI), Cologne (DCH/IfDH/IfL) and Hamburg (HZSK/INEL) and it has been officially recognized as a CLARIN K-Centre.

3rd April 2018

SpeakSOAS is now available for Android

It's finally here! SOAS World Languages Institute is proud to present a SOAS exclusive language exchange app to all users of Android.

21st February 2018

International Call-Out for Endangered Poetry

Multilingual call for poems in endangered languages.

16th February 2018

SOAS World Languages Institute to train scholars from the MENA region in modern language documentation

The SOAS World Languages Institute in collaboration with the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at SOAS University of London will deliver a week-long programme on theory and methods on modern language documentation with the Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft in Berlin.

13th February 2018

SOAS World Languages Institute to collaborate with Southbank Centre to preserve poems in endangered languages

Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of the SOAS World Languages Institute, is taking part in a major new project led by Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library to collect and preserve poems in endangered languages. The launch of the Endangered Poetry Project also coincides with National Poetry Day on Thursday 28 September.

28th September 2017