Language Documentation & Conservation (Free Open Access Journal)

02/26/2025

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new section of LD&C: Indigenous Language Rights & Realities. https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ilrr/

09/05/2024

The deadline for ICLDC general session proposals is coming up!

ICLDC 2025: 25 DAYS LEFT
Submit your general session proposals now!
September 30th, 11:59 pm Hawai‘i Standard Time

https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/general-session-proposals/

08/30/2024

We are delighted to announce a complete redesign of the LD&C website with new logos! Production has been slow for 2024 due to the redesign, but we're live now with the new site and several new articles are forthcoming for Volume 18. Check it out!

06/21/2023

We are also delighted to announce Special Publication 26: Five Key Topics in Language Documentation and Description

ISBN-13: 978-0-9856211-5-5 Edited by Peter Jenks and Lev Michael AbstractThe five papers in this volume are intended as guides for linguists engaged in language documentation and description. Each contribution provides the conceptual background, central concepts, and where relevant, diagnostic crite...

06/21/2023

We are delighted to announce Special Publication 28: The Acquisition Sketch Project

Edited by Birgit Hellwig, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Rebecca Defina, Barbara F. Kelly, & Evan Kidd This special publication aims to build a renewed enthusiasm for collecting acquisition data across many languages, including those facing endangerment and loss. … Continue reading →

06/21/2023

We've been busy! We have three new articles in Volume 17 (with more coming later this month), and two new Special Publications!

04/12/2023

❕📣❕Check out the poster for the Conference on Indigenous Science and Language (CISL)! 🧑‍🎨 Registration opens THIS SATURDAY!! 🗓️

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02/25/2023

T-5 days until ICLDC 8 kicks off with our pre-conference video screening! Be sure to register now to solidify your space at the conference and we are so excited to see you (virtually) next week!

Register here: http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/registration/

02/05/2023

01/18/2023

Delighted to announce a new Special Publication: SP27: Voices: Perspectives from the International Year of Indigenous Languages. This is especially timely as we enter the International Decade of Indigenous Languages

Cover Logo by Kaylene Big Knife Volume Introduction Sarah Sandman, Shannon Bischoff, Jens Clegg Front Matter Published as a Special Publication of Language Documentation & Conservation Linguistic Factors in Intergroup Relations and Democratic Governance in Nigeria Adegboye Adeyanju. 1-12. Workshoppi...

10/31/2022

Our new submission system is up and running! We're ready to accept your new manuscripts here:

Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C) is a fully refereed, open-access journal, sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published exclusively in electronic form by the University of Hawai‘i Press.

10/31/2022

We have 7 new articles available in Volume 16! We're sure you'll enjoy them--expect more new articles in December!

User needs in language archives: Findings from interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-usersMary Burke, Oksana L. Zavalina, Shobhana L. Chelliah & Mark E. Phillips pp. 1-24 Language archives, like other scholarly digital repositories, are built with two major … Continue read...