The 6th Symposium on Amazonian Languages (SAL 6): Call for Abstracts

Dear Amazonianist colleagues,

The 6th Symposium on Amazonian Languages (SAL 6) will take place March 27-28, 2026 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB, Canada. 

If you'd be interested in presenting your work at this conference, please send your abstracts to sympamazlang@gmail.com by February 10. Abstracts should be 500 words (including examples but not including references) and they can be on any topic related to Amazonian linguistics, including, but not limited to: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, and language maintenance and revitalization.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by February 15. Registration for the conference will be free.

I look forward to receiving your submissions!

Best,
Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (SAL 6 organizer)

Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages (SNAIL) 2026 — Call for Presenters

Abstract Submission Form: https://forms.gle/5Q4AyDH3x3w9pHAu7 

Date: June 26th-27th, 2025

Location: Eugene, Oregon, USA

Contact Person: Jordan AG Douglas-Tavani

Topics: Any linguistics, language revitalization, or presentation about language use for a language of the Pacific Northwest

Note: SNAIL 2026 will be happening in conjunction with the NILI 2026 Summer Institute. For more information about the NILI Summer Institute, please visit https://nili.uoregon.edu/program-offerings/summer-institute  

Call Deadline: Sunday, February 20th, 2026 at 11:59 PM (Pacific Standard Time)

Call for Papers: Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest, a geographic area ranging from Alaska to Northern California, to Montana (including British Columbia). The Indigenous languages of this area were and remain interconnected with one another. Recently, the area has been a hotbed for language revitalization and reclamation work. This conference, hosted by Northwest Indigenous Language Institute (NILI) and the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC), seeks to provide a venue for language speakers, artists, communities, and linguists to come together to share knowledge, foster collaboration, and celebrate the beauty and diversity of languages within the Pacific Northwest.  

For more about the NW-NALRC, please visit https://www.nili.uoregon.edu/nalrc  

Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples, figures, and / or references). Abstracts and presentations may be given in any language. Abstracts in an indigenous language will need translations provided for review. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper, who will be in attendance, and who are the corresponding authors.

Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format via the Abstract Submission form (also available via the conference website, see below). 

For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, at snail.conference@gmail.com.

Conference Website: https://www.snail-conference.org/ 

NILI and NW-NALRC offering Community-Based Project Planning and Development Workshop Series!

The Northwest Indigenous Language Institute (NILI), through the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC), is going to be offering a Community-Based Project Planning and Development Workshop Series!

There are 15 total workshops in the series, with 5 being offered over the course of the next 6 weeks. Completing all 15 workshops will take participants from learning the essentials of project planning, including evaluating community readiness and capacity, to creating actionable goals and a budget, to drafting a final project proposal.

First 5 Workshops:

These first 5 CPPD workshops will be offered online via Zoom from 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST. Workshops also have associated drop-in assistance time, also on Zoom, for participants to work directly with NW-NALRC staff on developing their projects.

Workshop information and associated files will be provided via the Canvas platform. This platform is free to use but does require an email to create an account. We will be sending registered participants an invitation to the email that you provide on this form.

Due to our present capacity limitations and the need for personalized engagement between participants and NW-NALRC staff, all workshops are capped at 50 participants. We offer registration on a first-come, first-served basis. If you register for the course after we have reached our capacity limit, we will notify you and put you on a waiting list for the next time that we offer these workshops.

The schedule for the current offering of workshops is as follows:

1. Introduction to Community-Based Planning and Design — 11/19 — 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST.

   • Next Day Drop-In Assistance — 11/20 — 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST

2. Community-Based Planning Tools — 11/25 — 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST

3. Building a Project Steering Committee — 12/3 — 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST

• Next Day Drop-In Assistance — 12/3 — 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST

4. Developing and Administering a Community Survey — 12/10 — 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST

• Next Day Drop-In Assistance — 12/11 — 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST

5. Assessing Community Readiness — 12/17 — 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST

• Next Day Drop-In Assistance — 12/18 — 3:30 - 4:30 PM PST

You can register by following the QR Code on the advertisement — or via this link: https://forms.office.com/r/NjGWyE6sxe    

If you need any assistance with registration, or if you have any questions or concerns, please email nalrc@uoregon.edu.

Reminder: Nominations for the 2026 DELAMAN Award due Nov. 2, 2025

Nominations for the 2026 DELAMAN Award are now being accepted. The deadline to submit a nomination is 02 November 2025. 

The winner will be announced in March 2026, and the prize will be awarded at the Language Documentation & Archiving conference in Berlin, Germany, 9-11 September 2026 (see langdoc.org for conference details). 

The Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network (DELAMAN) was established in 2003 with the goal of documenting and archiving endangered languages and cultures worldwide.

The DELAMAN Award recognizes and honors early-career documentors who have done outstanding documentary work in creating and archiving (in a DELAMAN member archive) a rich multimedia documentary collection of a particular language that is endangered or no longer spoken. For full details about the award and the nomination process, see https://www.delaman.org/delaman-award/.

Questions? Contact Susan Kung at skung@austin.utexas.edu 

Recordatorio: Convocatoria de nominaciones para el Premio DELAMAN 2026

Ya se aceptan nominaciones para el Premio DELAMAN 2026. La fecha límite para presentar una nominación es el 2 de noviembre de 2025.

El ganador se anunciará en marzo de 2026 y el premio se entregará en la conferencia de Documentación y Archivo de Lenguas en Berlín, Alemania, el 9 a 11 de septiembre de 2026 (Consulte langdoc.org para obtener más detalles sobre la conferencia).

La Red de Archivos Digitales de Lenguas y Músicas en Peligro (DELAMAN) se fundó en 2003 con el objetivo de documentar y archivar lenguas y culturas en peligro en todo el mundo.

El Premio DELAMAN reconoce y honra a documentalistas que se encuentran en sus inicios profesionales y han realizado una labor documental destacada en la creación y el archivo (en un acervo miembro de DELAMAN) de una rica colección documental multimedia de una lengua en peligro o que ya no se habla. Para obtener más información sobre el premio y el proceso de nominación, consulte https://www.delaman.org/delaman-award/.

¿Preguntas? Comuníquese con Susan Kung en skung@austin.utexas.edu

Lembrete: Chamada para indicações ao Prêmio DELAMAN 2026

As indicações para o Prêmio DELAMAN 2026 já estão abertas. O prazo para envio de indicações é 2 de novembro de 2025.

O ganhador será anunciado em março de 2026, e o prêmio será entregue na conferência Language Documentation & Archiving em Berlim, Alemanha, 9 a 11 de setembro de 2026 (veja langdoc.org para detalhes da conferência).

A Rede de Arquivos Digitais de Línguas e Músicas Ameaçadas (DELAMAN) foi criada em 2003 com o objetivo de documentar e arquivar línguas e culturas ameaçadas em todo o mundo.

O Prêmio DELAMAN reconhece e homenageia documentadores em início de carreira que realizaram um trabalho documental excepcional na criação e arquivamento (em um arquivo de membro DELAMAN) de uma rica coleção documental multimídia de uma língua específica ameaçada de extinção ou que não é mais falada. Para obter detalhes completos sobre o prêmio e o processo de indicação, consulte https://www.delaman.org/delaman-award/.

Dúvidas? Entre em contato com Susan Kung em skung@austin.utexas.edu

Join the PAC editorial team!

The Algonquian Studies Association is looking for a new co-editor for Papers of the Algonquian Conference (PAC). Monica Macaulay will be leaving her position as co-editor after more than ten years of service. The remaining co-editors Inge Genee and Natalie Weber are looking for one or two energetic individuals to strengthen the team. This is currently an unpaid position for an initial term of three years to begin as soon as possible.

PAC has been the flagship venue for the dissemination of original scholarship in Algonquian Studies for more than half a century. Currently published by Michigan State University Press, it publishes peer reviewed papers from the Algonquian Conference held annually in October.

Job description

We work collaboratively on all aspects of the publishing process. There is no editor-in-chief. Tasks include:'

• Call for papers: Distribute at annual conference and email out to presenters

• Peer review process: Secure peer reviewers, send out papers and guidelines to reviewers,receive reviewers’ reports, make editorial decisions

• Revision process: Communicate editorial decisions to authors, work with them on revisions, assess revised submissions

• Copy-editing and page proofing process: Work with the copyeditors at the Press and the authors to create clean texts and final page layout

Workload

• Currently on average 2-4 hours/week, with busier and quieter times

• Zoom meetings approximately once a month, more frequently in busier times

• Submissions are divided equally between the co-editors. Depending on the number of submissions each co-editor currently handles approximately 4-5 papers per volume.

What we offer

• A collaborative, supportive team

• On-the-job training for new editorial team members

• An opportunity to help guide PAC through a significant period of change

• A chance to work with the board of the new Algonquian Studies Association to help lead the direction of the field

Requirements

We are looking for one or two energetic individuals with the following characteristics:

• Considerable knowledge of and experience in the field of Algonquian Studies

• Experience with research dissemination processes, preferably from both sides, i.e. as author and as editor / editorial board member

• Commitment to regular meetings and editorial work for a term of three years (renewable)

• Interest in and willingness to contribute to realignment of the relationship between PAC, the annual Algonquian Conference, and the new Algonquian Studies Association

• Interest in and willingness to contribute to ongoing decolonization work

• Familiarity with and commitment to issues around Indigenous data sovereignty and ethics

• Strong organizational skill; ability to manage projects and adhere to timeliness

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to collaboratively work with other

More Information

If you have questions or need more information, please contact Inge Genee (inge.genee@uleth.ca) and/or Natalie Weber (natalie.weber@yale.edu.), PAC co-editors.

Expressions of interest

Send an email outlining your interest and qualifications with your CV to: Antti Arppe (antti.arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary of the Algonquian Studies Association with the subject line: PAC co-editor.

Deadline: September 15 (position open until filled)

We welcome new co-editors with backgrounds in any field, although we are particularly interested in building expertise in fields other than linguistics to complement the existing expertise among the current editorial team members. Members of Algonquian communities are especially encouraged to apply.

Join the Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies Working Group!

For a few years now, a number of individuals and academic programs have come together to form the 'Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies' (AILT) working group: https://ailt.arizona.edu

We would like to extend an invitation to SSILA members and your colleagues, friends and students to participate if you're interested.

We are a loosely organized, informal network of people who think that it's a good idea to work together to support community-based language technology development initiatives, and support Indigenous language communities. We are inviting participation from community members, students, scholars, engineers, others with expertise and/or interest in any or all of the following areas:

• Language work (revitalization, reclamation, repatriation, etc.)

• Language technology development (human language technologies, natural language processing, software engineering, etc.)

• Language policy (data sovereignty, language rights, etc.)

And you can participate in either or both of the following ways:

If you're interested and/or have questions, please contact Amy Fountain (avf@arizona.edu) and I'll be happy to share more info and/or just get you looped in at your preferred level.

Assistance to Black or Indigenous Linguists Applying to Graduate School

§ The Racial Justice Working Group in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto is taking applications from Black or Indigenous students who are applying to Graduate School in Canada or the US. This is the third year of a new program which is open to students applying to any graduate program in Canada/the United States, and not necessarily to the University of Toronto. Students interested in participating will receive one round of feedback on their application materials, and anyone interested can fill out this form: https://shorturl.at/TCQOl

Submissions will be accepted until November 17, 2025, but volunteers are limited so we encourage applicants to apply early!

§ El Grupo de Trabajo por la Justicia Racial del Departamento de Lingüística de la Universidad de Toronto recibe solicitudes de estudiantes afrodescendientes o indígenas para postularse a programas de posgrado en Canadá o Estados Unidos. Este es el tercer año de un programa novedoso abierto a estudiantes que se inscriban a cualquier programa de posgrado en Canadá o Estados Unidos, no necesariamente de la Universidad de Toronto.

Los estudiantes interesados en participar recibirán una respuesta con comentarios sobre su solicitud de postulación, y cualquier persona interesada puede completar el siguiente formulario: https://shorturl.at/TCQOl

Las solicitudes se recibirán hasta el 17 de noviembre del 2025, pero como los cupos son limitados, los animamos a postularse lo antes posible.

Convocatoria de nominaciones para el Permio DELAMAN 2026 | Call for nominations for the 2026 DELAMAN Award

§ Ya se pueden presentar las candidaturas para el Premio DELAMAN 2026. La fecha límite para el envío de nominaciones es el 2 de noviembre del 2025. El ganador o la ganadora será anunciado en marzo del 2026 y el premio se entregrará en la conferencia Language Documentation & Archiving, que tendrá lugar en Berlín, Alemania, en septiembre del 2026.

La Red de Archivos Digitales de Lenguas y Músicas en Peligro Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network/DELAMAN) se creó en 2003 con el propósito de documentar y archivar lenguas y culturas en peligro de todo el mundo. 

El Premio DELAMAN reconoce y galardona a documentalistas jóvenes que hayan realizado un trabajo de documentación destacado en la creación y archivo de un fondo documental multimedia important >sobre una lengua particular en peligro o extinta. Para mayor información sobre el premio y sobre el proceso de nominación de candidatos, consulte el siguiente enlace https://www.delaman.org/delaman-award/

§ Nominations for the 2026 DELAMAN Award are now being accepted. The deadline to submit a nomination is 02 November 2025. The winner will be announced in March 2026, and the prize will be awarded at the Language Documentation & Archiving conference in Berlin, Germany, in September 2026.

The Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network (DELAMAN) was established in 2003 with the goal of documenting and archiving endangered languages and cultures worldwide.

The DELAMAN Award recognizes and honors early-career documenters who have done outstanding documentary work in creating and archiving a rich multimedia documentary collection of a particular language that is endangered or no longer spoken. For full details about the award and the nomination process, seehttps://www.delaman.org/delaman-award/.

SSILA 2025 Program and Registration

SSILA will take place January 24 to 26, 2025 online via Zoom. We are delighted to share with you the program for SSILA 2025, to view please follow this link. To keep things simple, all times are listed in Eastern Time, as it should be straightforward for attendees to convert to their local time zone (and here’s a link to an easy time zone converter). This conference program is a live google document and will be updated when there are changes to the programming.

Registration is free but mandatory to attend the conference, please register using this link. Registration is the only way you will receive the Zoom links and conference updates.

We need one session chair for the Acquisition of Phonetics and Phonology session, on Saturday, 25 January from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Eastern Time. If you would like to chair this session, please email John Powell, the Program Administrator at conferences@ssila.org.

MSc and PhD positions at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, established in 1969, offers MSc and PhD positions for prospective graduate students interested in learning and conducting research with our vibrant team of faculty members, graduate students, and other academics in state-of-the-art research facilities. 

*The application deadline is January 15, 2025*.

The Department has a long-standing focus on community-engaged work with Indigenous languages and their sustainability and revitalization. Current areas of specialization include:

• Documentation and fieldwork on languages of Canada, the US, Mexico, Central America (especially, El Salvador), the Amazon and the South Pacific (Antti Arppe, David Beck, Martin Guardado, Marianne Huijsmans, Jordan Lachler, Yvonne Lam, and Jorge Rosés Labrada)

• Curriculum development and language teaching methods for North American Indigenous languages (Lachler)

• Indigenous language sustainability and revitalization (Huijsmans, Lachler, Lam, Rosés Labrada)

• Language technology and linguistic software applications for Indigenous languages (Arppe, Lachler)

• Indigenous language lexicography (Arppe, Beck, Huijsmans, Lachler, Rosés Labrada)

• Historical linguistics of the languages of the Americas (Beck, Rosés Labrada)

• Indigenous language revitalization initiatives in grassroots community groups (Guardado)

Please see the full listing of current Department faculty here: https://www.ualberta.ca/linguistics/people

Our research labs include the Language Documentation Research Cluster, which has newly upgraded computing and audio/video recording equipment for on-site and off-site data collection and processing,the Alberta Language Technology Lab, which is engaged in the development of computational models and various end-user software applications and resources for several Indigenous languages spoken in North America, and the DRAGONS Lab, which conducts research on language revitalization strategies globally.

We also work closely with the Alberta Phonetics Laboratory and have access to a number of sound-treated booths for high-quality audio recording. Additionally, our students benefit from our close ties with the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI) and regularly gain experience working as interns and instructors for CILLDI programs, both on campus and in communities.

Accepted PhD graduate students are provided four years of funding in the form of TA and RA stipends. Other support for research and conference travel, attending and hosting disciplinary events, and obtaining tools for research is also available. The Department offers cutting-edge training in statistical techniques, research methodologies in language documentation and language sustainability, psycholinguistics, and core areas of linguistics. Opportunities for within-discipline and cross-disciplinary collaboration are also available.

For more information on the Department and the graduate admissions process, please visit our departmental website at: https://www.ualberta.ca/linguistics, or contact Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Johanne Paradis (linggrad@ualberta.ca).

Conference: Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages (SNAIL)

Website: https://www.snailconference.org/

Date: July 12-13th, 2025
Location: Eugene, Oregon, USA
Contact Person: Jordan AG Douglas-Tavani
Topics: Any linguistics, language revitalization, or presentation about language use for a language of the Pacific Northwest

Call Deadline: Sunday, January 5th, 2025 at 11:59 PM (Pacific Standard Time)

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Scott DeLancey (University of Oregon)

Call for Papers:
Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest, a geographic area ranging from Alaska to Northern California to Montana, and including British Columbia. The similarities of the languages were observed by both Sapir, and then later his student Swadesh (1953). Later linguists would go on to further describe the similarities of languages in the area (e.g. Thompson and Kinkade 1990, Beck 2000, Mithun 2000). More recently, the area has been a hotbed for language revitalization and reclamation work, often through university and tribal partnerships, such as at the University of Oregon, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Washington. This conference seeks to provide a venue for language speakers, artists, communities, and linguists to come together to share knowledge and celebrate the beauty and diversity of languages within the PNW Sprachbund.

Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples, figures, and / or references). Abstracts and presentations may be given in any language. Abstracts in an indigenous language will need translations provided for review. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper, who will be in attendance, and who are the corresponding authors.

Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format via the Abstract Submission form (also available via the conference website). Please submit two abstracts, one with the identifying information of the person or persons giving the presentation along with affiliations and contact information, the other with no indication of the author(s). If authors must be cited, they should be referred to as (Author [DATE]).

Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than: Friday, February 7th, 2025.

For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, at snail.conference@gmail.com.

Sound Systems of Latin America 4 (SSLA4) - November 8-9, 2024

We are writing to advertise Sound Systems of Latin America 4 (SSLA4), a conference to be hosted by the UW Linguistics Department on Nov. 8-9, 2024. You can access the conference’s official program here.

SSLA 4 brings together leading scholars in the study of the sound systems of the indigenous languages of Latin America. Latin American indigenous languages are both linguistically diverse and severely endangered and under-studied. SSLA 4 promotes the scholarly interaction and collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous researchers. The conference’s topics will therefore encompass both the synchrony and diachrony of the phonetics and phonologies of particular dialects, languages, and families, and the contributions of these languages to phonetic and phonological typology, along with the documentation of languages whose phonologies remain undescribed or under-described. 

If you intend to participate in the event, please fill in this registration form by Monday, October 22, 2024. The SSLA4 organizing committee looks forward to welcoming you!

All the best,

Myriam Lapierre, Yuan Chai, and Ella De Falco

The SSLA4 Organizing Committee

Endangered Language Fund Accepting Applications

The Endangered Language Fund is now accepting applications for the Native Voices Endowment for eligible languages. Please follow the link for more information:

http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/uploads/7/2/8/7/72876547/nve_2024_rfp_final.pdf

The deadline is November 1, 2024. If you have any questions, please email them to elf@endangeredlanguagefund.org.

Conference / Workshop: "Language and Gender: Practical Aspects and Implementation"

Dr. Falco Pfalzgraf, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), would like to invite you to the Conference / Workshop "Language and Gender: Practical Aspects and Implementation" which takes place on Friday 6th September 2024. The event will be held online, and registration is free of charge.

If you would like to register, please let Dr. Pfalzgraf know via email at f.pfalzgraf@qmul.ac.uk, and please do include:

• your full name

• your highest academic degree, if any

• the name of the organisation/ company, etc. you are affiliated to (if any)

• your job title (if any)

• your country of work AND your country of residence

You will then be registered as "attending only" but you can contribute with your comments, questions, and in the Q&A / discussion.

Note that at this point in time, no additional presentations can be accepted - even though the event programme is still a draft version.

More information will appear at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguistics/research/gender-inclusive-language/research-networking-project/conferences--events/workshop-practical-aspects-and-implementation/