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The Pangloss Collection: Opening up Research Data on Endangered and Underdocumented Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Evangelia Adamou,
Séverine Guillaume and
Alexis Michaud
Evangelia Adamou*
Affiliation:
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Languages and Cultures of Oral Tradition (LaCiTO)
Séverine Guillaume*
Affiliation:
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Languages and Cultures of Oral Tradition (LaCiTO)
Alexis Michaud*
Affiliation:
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Languages and Cultures of Oral Tradition (LaCiTO)
*
[evangelia.adamou@cnrs.fr]
[severine.guillaume@cnrs.fr]
[alexis.michaud@cnrs.fr]
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Abstract

In this article, we present the Pangloss Collection, a collection of digital corpora of (mostly) endangered or underdocumented languages, developed in France since the 1990s in the context of a global realization of the considerable potential of digital technologies. The Pangloss Collection currently hosts 1,180 hours of audio and video recordings of about 200 languages. These materials are archived for the long-term using a suite of French public services for digital humanities. The Pangloss Collection can be freely accessed through a bilingual English-French website that was reshaped in 2021 to offer a general-audience interface mode and a professional interface mode (see https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/).

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language documentationdigital archivesendangered languagesopen sciencelinguistics

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Language Revitalization and Documentation
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Language , Volume 101 , Issue 1 , March 2025, pp. e38 - e59
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Copyright © 2025 Linguistic Society of America

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