ILR&R is an LD&C peer-reviewed, open-access publication focusing on Indigenous and non-dominant language rights and realities

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About ILR&R

Indigenous Language Rights & Realities (ILR&R) is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication focusing on topics related to Indigenous and non-dominant language rights and realities. ILR&R is a section of Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C), and is sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published exclusively in electronic form by the University of Hawaiʻi Press.

Indigenous Language Rights & Realities

Our parent journal

Established in 2007, Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C) (ISSN 1934-5275) is a free, double-blind peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published exclusively in electronic form by the University of Hawai‘i Press. 

LD&C publishes original research on all topics related to language documentation and conservation, including, but not limited to: the goals of language documentation, speech community collaboration, data management, fieldwork methods and methodologies, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, ethnolinguistic vitality assessment, archiving, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports, as well as issues related to language maintenance, preservation, revitalization, and reclamation.

Our affiliated conference

The International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation series, or ICLDC, has, since its inception in 2009, become the flagship conference for the field of language documentation. Every two years, conference attendees gather to share their experiences working on diverse topics related to the preservation of underrepresented languages worldwide.

International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation