Endangered and Lesser Known Languages

Dear Colleagues,

We welcome contributions among the accepted abstracts in the ELKL partner journal, Languages, an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on interdisciplinary studies of languages, published quarterly online by MDPI.

This volume on ‘Endangered and Lesser Known Languages’ will be a collection of selected papers presented during the 7th conference on Endangered and Lesser Known languages (https://sites.google.com/jadavpuruniversity.in/elkl7ju/about-elkl) to be held on 22-23 February 2019. The conference primarily focuses on the contemporary research on endangered and lesser-known languages of India and all such other cases in various countries. The theme for this conference has been kept as 'Archiving and Data management'. Given that much of the work previously accomplished has only focused on data collection and on several occasions due to lack of technical knowledge, the data has become somehow irrelevant, which means that the methodology has to be revised too. So, on the one hand, the conference and this special volume will explore the details of the technology and theoretical framework involved in the documentation process as well it will include all aspects pertaining to the endangered and lesser-known languages. There can be papers on syntax, phonology, morphology, typology and all the other areas of linguistics and alongside papers related to the corpus, database and archive making will be considered.

We invite submissions on the following and related sub-themes:

• Documentation of endangered and lesser-known languages
• Language ecology
• Language endangerment scenario
• Language policy and language planning
• Language revitalization
• Community’s participation in language revitalization process
• Development of script and orthography
• Mother tongue based multilingual education
• Technologies for endangered and lesser-known languages
• Field ethics and case studies
• Language archiving
• Language contact, maintenance and shift
• Linguistic human rights

Registered presenters are encouraged to submit full-length articles in English to the Special Issue “Endangered and Lesser Known Languages” which will comprise selected papers from the conference edited by the Conference Chair, Dr. Atanu Saha & Prof. Gautam Sengupta. The deadline for submissions to the Special Issue is 31 January 2018. Manuscripts can be submitted here. They will be peer-reviewed and published online immediately after acceptance.

Languages (ISSN 2226-471X) is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH Plus). For further information, please contact the Editorial Office (languages@mdpi.com).

Prof. Gautam Sengupta
Dr. Atanu Saha
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Languages is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Endangered and lesser known languages
• Typology
• Archiving
• Data digitization
• Minor languages