Aboriginal Languages

For comprehensive and up-to-date research on the world's languages. Includes country profiles, language profiles, statistics, maps, and more.

First draft of a working list of Indigenous Names to better reflect how Indigenous people currently prefer to refer to themselves. This document is being continuously updated and edited. Released through the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA) and CFLA-FCAB Indigenous Matters Committee – Red Team Joint Working Group on Classification and Subject Headings.

FPCC resource list available on Zotero.

Online tools and resources designed to support Indigenous people engaged in language archiving, language teaching and culture revitalization.

All volumes from ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages) are available here. Volume from 1966-1999 are formally part of the Kinkade Collection. Volumes from 2000 onward are published by UBCWPL (Working Papers in Linguistics), as indicated by their UBCWPL publication number.

Index of Indigenous languages in BC, other names, and dialects, organized by language family. Includes links to additional information.

Information on the development of orthographies (standardized system for writing) Indigenous languages. Includes information on symbols and diacritics (such as accents, underlines, or bars).

The Relational Lexicography project is a research initiative that aims to produce a decolonized dictionary created by speakers and with learners of under-resourced languages. As of mid 2020, the project is currently in process.

"Transmissions Expanded is an online portal to educational materials related to Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions art installation: an opportunity to dig deeper into the languages, the revitalization efforts and the cross-disciplinary thinking that animates the artwork. Transmissions Expanded gives a glimpse into what the Elders mean when they say “the culture is in the language.”"