August 23, 2026
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
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- We co-hosted the Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous California Languages June 1-6.
- CLA staff, volunteers, and depositors accessioned eight new analog and born-digital archival collections. The materials represent six language families on three continents, and range from the earliest known sound recordings of some languages to ethnographic field notes to Berkeley linguistics graduate courses and beyond.
- Colección de materiales de la lengua yanesha' de Mariana Poblete (Arawakan, Peru)
- Materiales del proyecto de documentación "tātā xi na" de la lengua dà’àn dávì (Otomanguean, Mexico), Tzintia Montaño Ramírez
- Maurice Zigmond Collection of Uto-Aztecan Language Materials (Uto-Aztecan, California)
- Abraham Halpern Papers on Indigenous Languages, recataloging a previous collection to add original notebooks, other loose notes, manuscripts, and file slips related to Kwtsaan (Yuman; Arizona, California)
- Colección de textos arákbut de An Van linden (isolate, Peru)
- Berkeley Field Methods: Kuki-Thaadow (Tibeto-Burman, India), from the 2004-2005 graduate field methods course
- Berkeley Field Methods: Tangkhul Naga (Tibeto-Burman, India), from the 2002-2003 graduate field methods course
- Trevor Allin Collection of Resígaro Language Materials (Arawakan, Peru)
- CLA volunteers and depositors added materials to three extant collections:
- Materials of the Nukuoro Documentation Initiative (Polynesian, Micronesia), items 2019-24.336 to 2019-24.399, Magaret Apserheim and Abigail Roberts
- Samuel Alfred Barrett Papers, items Barrett.024 to Barrett.075, including 19 original notebooks from the early 20th century related to Eastern Pomo (Pomoan, California)
- Kalaallisut Language Materials (Inuit, Greenland), items 2022-13.107 to 2022-13.247, Line Mikkelsen
- We've begun digitizing our extensive holdings of lexical file slips, first with some of Kenneth Hill's documentation of Serrano (Uto-Aztecan, California).