
Speakers of ILARA
Speakers of ILARA offers filmed creations, interviews or original reports, produced by or in collaboration with speakers of these rare languages, which highlight those who practice them.
This series is one of the formats offered on the YouTube channel of ILARA Online, the virtual branch of the Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity. It explores languages that are little described, little studied, little spoken, or disappeared.

Banor at Play
In the third video of the series, Mr. Claude Meintz and his children Frida, Armand, Lucien, and Henri share how they are breathing new life into their father’s ancestral language in their home in Île-de-France.

Na Paranga, the Treasure My Father Left Me
In the fourth video of the series, Dr. Alpheaus Graham Zobule talks about his relationship to his native language, Luqa (also spelled Luga, Lungga), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by approximately 3,900 people in the southern half of the island of Ranongga, in the Solomons Islands.







