Archiving Significant Collections of Endangered Language Resources

FAIN: PD-50003-06

University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX 78712-0100)
Joel F. Sherzer (Project Director: January 2006 to December 2010)
Heidi Johnson (Co Project Director: January 2006 to December 2010)

Digital archiving of Mexican, Central, and South American linguistic materials to be made accessible by The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA).

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a Web-based repository of multimedia materials that are digitize in accordance with international standards and are made accessible to scholars and speaker communities worldwide. In collaboration with the eight linguists who have collected materials over the last 40 years, the project staff would digitize and preserve recordings and written materials that document languages of Costa Rica, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico.

Associated Products

Yolanda Lastra MesoAmerican Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Yolanda Lastra MesoAmerican Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection consists of recordings made by Dra. Lastra from 1959 to the present day of Mesoamerican languages in the Nahuatl and Otomí language families.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2010
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org
Primary URL Description: AILLA is a digital archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America.

Laura Cervantes Costa Rican Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Laura Cervantes Costa Rican Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection consists of recordings made by Dra. Cervantes from 1986 to 2006 of the Bribri language of Costa Rica. Dra. Cervantes' Masters Thesis is also included.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Director: Anthony C. Woodbury
Year: 2010
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/welcome.html
Primary URL Description: AILLA is a digital archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America.

Nicholas Hopkins Mayan Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Nicholas Hopkins Mayan Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection consists of audio and video recordings made by Dr. Hopkins from 1964 to 2002 of the Mexican Mayan languages Chuj and Chol. Dr. Hopkins' dissertation and many transcriptions and translations are also included.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2010
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org
Primary URL Description: AILLA is a digital archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America.

Laura Martin Mayan Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Laura Martin Mayan Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection consists of audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and other field notes and articles created by Dr. Martin from 1973 to the present of the Mayan languages Q'anjob'al and Mocho.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2010
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org
Primary URL Description: AILLA is a digital archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America.

Jane and Kenneth Hill Nahuatl Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Jane and Kenneth Hill Nahuatl Collection
Abstract: The Hill collection includes recordings in the Nahuatl of Tlaxcala and Cupeño, among others. There are over 100 recordings in the collection, many of which are accompanied by transcriptions and translations.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2009
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org
Primary URL Description: Welcome to AILLA AILLA is a digital archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America.

Kathryn Josserand Mesoamerican Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Kathryn Josserand Mesoamerican Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection includes audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes, created in the 1970's and 1980's.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2009
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Edward and Mary Moser Seri Language Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Edward and Mary Moser Seri Language Collection
Abstract: A large and eclectic collection of recordings made in the 1960's.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2009
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

John Fought Mayan Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: John Fought Mayan Languages Collection
Abstract: The Ch'orti' materials that form the bulk of this fine collection consist of several hundred recordings made between 1964 and 1967 in Guatemala, field notes and photographs. There are also recordings, notes, and photographs for Chol and Chontal of Tabasco. All of these materials were digitized by Dr. Fought with the support of a grant from the National Science Foundation program for Documenting Endangered Languages.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2009
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Victoria Bricker Mayan Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Victoria Bricker Mayan Languages Collection
Abstract: Recordings in Tzotzil, Yucateco and other Mayan languages, many with transcriptions and translations, from the 1960's and 1970's.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2008
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

John McDowell Colombian Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: John McDowell Colombian Languages Collection
Abstract: These audio recordings, of exceptionally high quality, are accompanied by transcriptions and translations into English.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2008
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Janet Chernela Tucanoan Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Janet Chernela Tucanoan Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection includes audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes, created in the 1970's and 1980's.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2008
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Marie-Claude Mattei Müller Venezuelan Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Marie-Claude Mattei Müller Venezuelan Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection was developed over decades of research in the indigenous languages of Venezuela. There are audio recordings in several languages and a range of discourse genres, including word lists, poetry, chants, songs, conversations and narratives.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2007
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Ellen Basso Kalapalo Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Ellen Basso Kalapalo Collection
Abstract: This collection includes audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes, created from the 1960's to the 1990's.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2007
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Jonathan Hill Curripaco Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Jonathan Hill Curripaco Collection
Abstract: This collection includes audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes, created in the 1980's.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2007
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Salvador Bucca Argentinian Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Salvador Bucca Argentinian Languages Collection
Abstract: This large collection contains all of the recordings made by Prof. Bucca in the course of his many decades of research into the indigenous languages of Argentina.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2006
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org
Primary URL Description: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin

Lucía Golluscio Argentinian Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Lucía Golluscio Argentinian Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection consists of audio recordings in a wide range of discourse genres.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2006
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

John Haviland Tzotzil Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: John Haviland Tzotzil Collection
Abstract: This is a large collection of video and audio recordings created from the 1970's to the present decade.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2010
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Ernest Migliazza Amazonian Languages (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Ernest Migliazza Amazonian Languages
Abstract: This large collection of audio recordings frm the 1960's includes songs, myths, Wayamó trade talk, narratives and Brazilian National Museum word list elicitations for many Amazonian languages, some of which are now extinct. There are also recordings in several languages of Panama.
Abstract: This is a large collection of audio recordings of many languages made in the 1960's.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2006
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Colette Grinevald Rama Language and Culture Project Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Colette Grinevald Rama Language and Culture Project Collection
Abstract: This collection contains audio recordings in a wide range of genres; photographs; pedagogical materials for teaching the Rama language; and articles by Prof. Grinevald.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2006
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Arthur P. Sorensen, Jr. Amazonian Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Arthur P. Sorensen, Jr. Amazonian Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection includes photographs, audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes, created in the 1960's and 1970's.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2010
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Chatino Language Documentation Project Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Chatino Language Documentation Project Collection
Abstract: This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, annotations, and analyses of a wide range of discourse genres in all the Chatino languages; and datasets, analyses, and pedagogical materials on the languages themselves.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2011
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Alan R. and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom Nahuatl Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Alan R. and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom Nahuatl Collection
Abstract: This collection includes audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes, created in the 1990's.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2010
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.org

Rosaleen Howard Quechua Languages Collection (Acquisitions/Materials Collection)
Name: Rosaleen Howard Quechua Languages Collection
Abstract: This collection includes audio and video recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes, created from the 1980's to the present.
Director: Joel Sherzer
Year: 2011
Address: The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin
Primary URL: http://www.ailla.utexas.edu

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