Endangered Language Alliance

05/21/2026

June 5-6: Save the Dates!

05/07/2026

Saturday!

04/20/2026

Tomorrow!

04/20/2026

Friday / Viernes!

03/09/2026

The International Linguistic Association will be hosting their 69th Annual Conference on "Beyond Human Language: The Impact of AI on Linguistics" from April 30 – May 2, 2026, at John Jay College, City University of New York.

The theme of this conference asks how language is created, implicated, manipulated, used, learned, taught, and bought-and-sold by the integration of Artificial Intelligence into all aspects of our lives. It is not an overstatement to say that the arrival of AI upends every aspect of Linguistics from the way language gets created to the way language is used to the way language goes out of use. The relationship between language and AI emerges in a social and political context that forges new ways of human existence in the world.

This conference aims to move beyond the polarized debate over AI (complete acceptance to outright rejection) to consider the implications and impact of AI on language and linguistic inquiry in real time—our time. To the degree that language and AI are enmeshed in our lives, this conference calls on linguists and scholars to shed light on the effects of this relationship, both good and bad, both revolutionary and mundane.
All topics in linguistics and language scholarship are also welcome for presentation at this conference...

Register now!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCKUk4ufpw81JENqn0X2a1H8kkToZk-UWzgvLQgpVkVfqHUg/viewform

02/20/2026

In honor of IMLD, ELA's Language Revitalization Series continues today at 4:30 pm with Archivo Sonoro Mapuche over zoom and James Lovell in person at ELA + a musical event tomorrow in the Bronx. Click on our newsletter below for all the information!

Feb 20, 2026, 4:30 PM Eastern Timehttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/3467077745?pwd=xZgEObtRLRcj5CabxpHuPV1kCeT9SY.1&omn=82485547413Meeting ID: 346 707 7745Passcode: music

02/11/2026

This is a flipbook video version of “The Elephant and the Ant” (Filat Mirpriç)-from the printed children’s book, Two Wakhi Tales, published by ELA as part of the Pamiri Stories collection.
Please support this work by purchasing here:
https://elalliance.myshopify.com/products/two-wakhi-tales-pamiri-stories
Edited by Husniya Khujamyorova
Illustrated by Sangmamad Oshurov
Designed by Emily Gref
Supported by the Worldwide Education Research Institute
Special thanks to Nicole Galpern

02/09/2026

Coming soon! Music Heritage Center

Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36821/production/1263720?performanceId=11748069

01/26/2026

01/23/2026

Los Angeles!

ELA is popping up in Chinatown next Sunday February 1 at 1 pm with a free event, co-sponsored by Kultur Mercado. Co-Director Ross Perlin will be talking languages, cities, migration—and what's happening right now.

Help spread the word and let us know if you can make it:

Half of all 7000+ languages could disappear in the next 100 years and many have never been recorded...