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Wakhi

With approximately 40,000 speakers worldwide, Wakhi is a language of the Pamir mountains, spoken by small populations similar in size—all under 10,000—in adjacent, remote regions of Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China.

Pamiri Languages

Language City

From ELA's co-director, a portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet

Speaker Collaborators

Speakers of over 100 languages have worked with ELA on a wide range of projects, from documenting their languages to hosting celebrations of art and culture.

Researchers & Volunteers

Volunteers and researchers past and present have helped out on a wide range of ELA projects.

Directors & Coordinators

ELA is led by a small team of experienced linguists and language activists based in New York City.

Storybooks

ELA collaborates with communities on storybooks in Indigenous, minority, and primarily oral languages for children, the speakers of the future.

2024: A Year of Languages

This year we did a bit of everything: a book, a play, a summer program, a huge range of events for different audiences, and—as always—ongoing original research with languages and communities from around the world. Worldwide, it was a year dominated by consequential elections and questions of migration, mobility, and culture. As the only organization…

ELA’s Language Map in the News

Since its release in December, ELA’s “Languages of New York” map has been featured in a range of publications, including Gothamist, Time Out, The Daily Sun (New York’s daily Japanese newspaper), with re-tweets by the New York City’s Mayor Office and leading New York City politicians. Then a few weeks ago, The New York Times…

Exploring the Other Roof of the World

This summer, with support from a National Geographic Explorer grant, a team from ELA is traveling across the Pamir region of Tajikistan and an adjacent area of western China, interviewing over 70 speakers and singers in a dozen different languages — primarily under-documented, endangered Iranic languages of the Pamiri subgroup such as Wakhi and Shughni, which…

2017 — a year of languages

Over the past year, ELA continued its mission to document linguistic diversity both in our hometown of New York City, a global language capital, and around the world. We partnered with government agencies, high schools, museums, community groups, language activists and Google to support dozens of languages from five continents. In January, we launched a new hyper-multilingual…

Unheard Of! Part II – The Pamirs

Our second installment of the Unheard Of! series will take place November 17th and focus on the Pamir region of Tajikistan and Northeast Pakistan. The Pamiri languages belong to the Iranic group but are only distantly related to Persian. They are increasingly marginalized as younger people begin to shift to Russian, Tajik and, in Pakistan,…