Collections tagged Linguistics and Anthropology
Jawi Transcription Project
This is a pilot project to experiment with crowd-sourced transcription of Malay manuscripts written in Jawi. The first manuscript is British Library Mss Malay B 9. With thanks to the British Library for digitising this manuscript and making it available for reuse. The manuscript can also be...
Irish Dialect Archive Manuscript Collection
The Irish Dialect Archive (Cartlann na gCanúintí) was established in 1953 by Professor Tomás de Bhaldraithe, as part of the Department of Modern Irish at UCD. The Archive is a resource centre for Irish language lexical/dialect research and consists of card indices, manuscripts, computer-based...
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages These First Nations language materials are being made available to assist community access the collections which were identified in the Rediscovering Indigenous languages project. The Rediscovering Indigenous Languages site features historic word lists,...
Vocabulary of New South Wales Aboriginal Dialects
This collection includes word lists of Indigenous Australian to English (6 volumes), and English to Indigenous Australian (4 volumes), with map, and location index in Volume 01.
Three Accounts of the Vasil'ev-Shismarev Expedition of 1819-1822
This collection has been fully transcribed (thank you!), but we still need your help to index subjects, which are: people, places, and organizations. You can index a subject by placing double brackets around it [[like this]]. Take a look at our Tagging and Metadata Tutorial to learn more, or...
Princeton Expeditions to Syria (1899, 1904-1905, 1909)
Welcome to the transcription project for the Howard Crosby Butler Archive! We need your help to bring the story of monumental expeditions to Syria back to the modern world. These expedition notebooks within the archive detail information about the ancient world not present in...
Tribes of North East India and Myanmar
This Project will endeavour to transcribe documents relating to the various tribes of the North East of India and across the border in Myanmar (Burma) The first documents uploaded from the British era relating to the Patkai ranges. These documents relate in particular to the tribal groups in...