by Melinda Fodor Once upon a time, somewhere in northern East India, within an ancient Buddhist community, the first natural “Esperanto” language, Pali, emerged. Its development was certainly not the result of artificial, deliberate,...
The 2023 edition of the “Speech Datathon”, a workshop for speech data archiving, took place from Monday November 13 to Tuesday November 14, 2023 in the DataLab spaces of the Bibliothèque nationale de France....
by Alexandre François With about 500 languages, the Oceanic family spreads out across the vast Pacific Ocean. Three thousand years ago, its myriad islands and atolls began to be explored and settled by Austronesian...
by Julieta Rotaru Although acknowledged, notably by nineteenth-century French historiography, as a form of social freedom deprivation for the “last slaves in the heart of Europe” (Regnault 1855: 329), Roma slavery is not anchored...
In 2023, the world marks eighty years since the publication of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince in French and of its first translation into English. This extraordinary book holds the record as one...
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PRESENTATION
ILARA, the Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity, is a centre for training in, expertise on and resources relating to languages that are rarely studied in a university setting. It offers flexible and innovative courses for such languages, which have either been seldom described or taught in past scholarship, or are now in danger of extinction (some are already extinct), or both. The Institute thus builds a bridge between the study of ancient languages (documented only in writing), and of those languages which possess an extant oral tradition (the documentation of these latter thus includes an audio-visual dimension).