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This is the home page of LangueDOC site maintained by a workgroup of linguists for the project of documenting several minority languages of Russia. The project is generously supported by NSF grant #0553546 «Five languages of Eurasia» under the Documenting Endangered Languages Program, and by RFBR grant ¹ 05-06-80351 «Minority languages and cultures: On the verge of extinction».

Map of Locations (ñlick to open Google Map)
eumap

This map as well as a number of demo pages illustrating the use of software and possible layouts of multimedia materials can be found at the following page: http://cs.colgate.edu/~sasha/fivelang/.

Movie

We are pleased to offer a 20 min movie about our fieldwork filmed in 2007 trip to Khinalug.

News

01.04.2009: Uploaded a Fieldworks (FLEx) to ELAN conversion utility, with instructions.

26.03.2009: Two Archi texts uploaded to LangueDOC server: anniversary greetings for Aleksandr Kibrik from Archi.

14.02.2009: Khinalug and Nganasan texts uploaded to LangueDOC server: 16 Khinalug performed texts (+sound), one new spontaneous Khinalug text (+sound, +video), and 14 Nganasan texts (+sound, +video).

05.11.2008: Language Archives server LangueDOC launched in test mode.
The server is powered by Language Archiving Technologies software (Max-Planck Institute, Nijmegen). It is designed to grant storage and on-line access to video, audio and text linguistic data.

09.07.2008: Uploaded the UNESCO questionnaire on language vitality and language diversity. Please send the filled questionnaires to the Endangered Languages Programme at ling.diversity@unesco.org.
Learn more at http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00144 and http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas.

05.02.2008: Uploaded the new movie about the field trip to Khinalug in 2007 .

05.02.2008: Added the section on Tofalar, uploaded the first two glossed texts.

27.01.2008: Added the section on Enets, uploaded the first Enets glossed text.

17.01.2008: Added pages on the Project team and Publications.

16.01.2008: Added the section on Khinalug, including alphabet and texts.

06.01.2008: Added a page on Archi alphabet.

24.12.2007: Site design updated. Best viewed with Mozilla Firefox.

24.12.2007: Archi texts (in *.doc) uploaded. English and Russian sections updated, although TechHelp and Learning materials are still only in Russian.

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