Collections taggedLinguistics and Anthropology

Jawi Transcription Project
This is a pilot project to experiment with crowd-sourced transcription of Malay manuscripts written in Jawi. The first manuscript is British Library Mss Malay B 9. With thanks to the British Library for digitising this manuscript and making it available for reuse. The manuscript can also be...

Irish Dialect Archive Manuscript Collection
The Irish Dialect Archive (Cartlann na gCanúintí) was established in 1953 by Professor Tomás de Bhaldraithe, as part of the Department of Modern Irish at UCD. The Archive is a resource centre for Irish language lexical/dialect research and consists of card indices, manuscripts, computer-based...

Humanist Manuscripts
A collection of 15th century Italian manuscripts, for collaborative transcription and translation projects.

First Nations Language Collection
There are over 150 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language groups in Queensland. The Queensland State Archives Languages Project aims to support First Nations communities to record and revive traditional languages across the state. The project involves identifying, researching,...

Rediscovering Indigenous Languages
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages These First Nations language materials are being made available to assist community access the collections which were identified in the Rediscovering Indigenous languages project. The Rediscovering Indigenous Languages site features historic word lists,...

Katalog der Bibliothek des Herrn Prof. Dr. Rudolf Hildebrand (Manuscript Collection MISC 233)
Catalogue arranged according to subject headings. In German. Subjects include Old High German and Middle High German literature, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th century German literature, folk songs, legends, literary history, linguistics, grammar, dictionaries, history, geography, culture,...

Vocabulary of New South Wales Aboriginal Dialects
This collection includes word lists of Indigenous Australian to English (6 volumes), and English to Indigenous Australian (4 volumes), with map, and location index in Volume 01.

Macovei
Correctiones de le filos con textos del Dictionario Encyclopedic Universal scribite per Toma Macovei in anno 1999.

Three Accounts of the Vasil'ev-Shismarev Expedition of 1819-1822
This collection has been fully transcribed (thank you!), but we still need your help to index subjects, which are: people, places, and organizations. You can index a subject by placing double brackets around it [[like this]]. Take a look at our Tagging and Metadata Tutorial to learn more, or...

Princeton Expeditions to Syria (1899, 1904-1905, 1909)
Welcome to the transcription project for the Howard Crosby Butler Archive! We need your help to bring the story of monumental expeditions to Syria back to the modern world. These expedition notebooks within the archive detail information about the ancient world not present in...

Tribes of North East India and Myanmar
This Project will endeavour to transcribe documents relating to the various tribes of the North East of India and across the border in Myanmar (Burma) The first documents uploaded from the British era relating to the Patkai ranges. These documents relate in particular to the tribal groups in...

Archdeacon James Gunther papers, 1826-1878
The Archdeacon William James Gunther (1839-1918) was born on 28 May 1839 at Wellington, New South Wales, and was son of Reverend James William Gunther and his wife Lydia, née Paris. Gunther (the elder) was a German-born missionary, who worked in the Mudgee district and died circa 1879. The...

Sir Thomas Mitchell - Papers, 1708-1855
Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855) was appointed surveyor-general of New South Wales in 1828. Between 1831 and 1846 he made four exploring expeditions into the interior of Australia. The papers held by the State Library of New South Wales include Sir Thomas Mitchell field books, sketchbooks and...

Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia records, 1885-1914, with additional material, 1921-1926, 1991, and papers of Alan Carroll, 1886-1892
The Society's collection includes Survey forms and correspondence received by the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia regarding Aboriginal place names, 1899-1903, 1921-1926., and Survey forms, lists and correspondence received by the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia...

William Gardner - Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854
William Gardner arrived in Sydney from Leith in 1838. He lived and worked in Maitland and then in Armidale and compiled the first detailed map of the northern districts of New South Wales, published in September 1844. Both volumes of his manuscript Production and resources of the northern and...

James Cook - A Journal of the proceedings of His Majesty's Bark Endeavour on a voyage round the world, by Lieutenant James Cook, Commander, commencing the 25th of May 1768 - 23 Oct. 1770
This item, held by the State Library of New South Wales, was selected for the Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project

Select specimens from nature of the birds animals &c &c of New South Wales / collected and arranged by Thomas Skottowe Esqr. ; the drawings by T.R. Browne. N.S.W.
Thomas Skottowe was Commandant of the Newcastle penal settlement from 1811 to 1814. While in Newcastle, Skottowe organised the collection and drawing of specimens for this manuscript. He was also responsible for their arrangement and wrote the accompanying text. Richard Browne, watercolour...

Milson family further papers, 1826 - 1960
The following parts of this collection, held by the State Library of New South Wales, were selected for the Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project: -Box 14 Folder 7: James Milson, correspondence & documents of David Dunlop, 1830s-1880s -Box 20 Folder 1: James Milson, Aboriginal...