About ELKL

The Endangered and Lesser Known Languages conference began as a platform for academicians, researchers and members of speech communities to deliberate issues relevant to language endangerment and share their latest findings. This annual conference aims to create interest in lesser known languages and train young scholars in language documentation. (With inputs from ELKL 6)

Founding chair

Professor Kavita Rastogi

The previously held conferences are listed as under:

Year Hosting Institute

1st ELKL 2012 Department of Linguistics Lucknow University

2nd ELKL 23-24 October, 2013 Department of Linguistics, Lucknow University Lucknow

3rd ELKL 19-20 February, 2015 Department of Linguistics, University of Lucknow, with CIIL

4th ELKL 25-27 February 2016 Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra

5th ELKL 24-26 February 2017 Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi

6th ELKL 21-23 February 2018 CIIL, Mysuru