Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library Podcast
Episode 7
What happens when you have a collection of recordings of endangered languages but little further information about what’s actually on them? Guest speaker Dr Alice Rudge, a cataloguer in the sound archive, talks to Andrew and Rowan about the fascinating stories she has discovered through her work as part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project, and the collaborations with curator Andrea Zarza Canova and linguists Professor Janet Watson, Abdullah Musallam al-Mahri, and Dr Miranda Morris that enabled these stories to be heard.
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This week’s ‘What’s the feature?’ used a clip from:
Millennium Memory Bank Recording in Stoke-on-Trent. BBC, UK, rec. 1998 [digital audio file]. British Library, C900/16541. Available: https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Millenium-memory-bank/021M-C0900X16541X-2100V1
Links:
Unlocking Our Sound Heritage: https://www.bl.uk/projects/unlocking-our-sound-heritage
Information on the major, international, community-based project that focuses on the documentation and ethnolinguistic analysis of Modern South Arabian languages, and is coordinated by Dr Janet Watson and funded by the Leverhulme Trust can be found here: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125219/modern_south_arabian_languages
Deposits of Modern South Arabian linguistic materials can be found at the Endangered Languages Archive: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/
Friends of Soqotra: http://www.friendsofsoqotra.org/
World and Traditional Music collection: https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/world-and-traditional-music
British Library Sound Archive on NTS Radio: https://www.nts.live/shows/british-library-sound-archive
#BritishLibrary	#Podcast	#Language	#Linguistics	#Sociolinguistics	
#Accent		#Dialect		#EndangeredLanguages		#Arabic
#Socotra		#Oman		#Yemen		#Mehri		#Soqotri
#Shehri		#Harsusi		#Hobyót		#T.M.Johnstone
#MillenniumMemoryBank	#Stoke		#Stoke-on-Trent

Evolving English: Linguistics At The Library - Episode 7

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest libraries. We hold over 13 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 57 million patents and 6 million sound recordings. Open to everyone, the Library offers events, temporary exhibitions and a Treasures Gallery that displays over 200 items, including Magna Carta, a Gutenberg Bible and lyrics by The Beatles.