Official Homepage: JSEALS on the University of Hawai‘i Press website
Articles are published and archived on: eVols, the University of Hawai‘i institutional repository.
This Google Site is maintained by the JSEALS editorial team to provide supplementary information for contributors and readers. The UH Press site serves as the journal’s official homepage, with the definitive record of aims, editorial board, licensing, and author fees.  You will find  information about the annual SEALS conference here.

JSEALS HOSTING INSTITUTION

• Since the beginning of 2017, JSEALS has been published through the University of Hawai'i Press and posted on the JSEALS page of the UH Press website. All editions of JSEALS from 10.1 on are available at that site, and links are provided in this site as well, including both the journal articles and Special Publications. JSEALS is a free open-access journal which employs a double-blind-review process for research articles. 

THE SCOPE OF JSEALS (as of 06 October 2026)

• The Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) is the peer-reviewed open-access electronic Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), which holds annual linguistics conferences. JSEALS is devoted to publishing research on the languages of greater Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia that advances the scholarly description and analysis of the five major languages of Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia, including Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Kradai, and Sino-Tibetan. Our core mission is to support high‑quality scholarship grounded in empirical data and rigorous analysis within a solidly linguistic framework of description and analysis. We welcome contributions on:

  • • Descriptive, theoretical, and typological linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics informed by Southeast Asian linguistic data

    • Historical and comparative linguistics: reconstruction, subgrouping, contact, and areal typology

    • Linguistic documentation with the potential to substantially contribute to analytical linguistic insight, such as phonological, lexical, and grammatical data

    • Sociolinguistics and variation studies solidly grounded in linguistic frameworks and having clear analytical outcomes 

Submissions must be framed around linguistic questions, linguistic evidence, and linguistic argumentation. Studies outside of the scope of JSEALS include those with a primary focus on applied linguistics (e.g., language acquisition and translation), pedagogy, language development (e.g., literacy or orthography and literature development), Linguistic Landscape (e.g., multilingualism, language dominance, language policy and planning) and will not be considered for publication.

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS

• Submission is open to all, regardless of participation in SEALS meetings. Each original article submitted as a research article undergoes double-blind review by two specialists, including a member of the Advisory Board and/or one or more independent referees. There is no fee for publishing in JSEALS, and JSEALS articles are published as Open Access works. We are grateful for reviewers' assistance in ensuring the quality of our publications. If you wish to submit your work or have any queries about submitting an article, please send an email to sealsandjseals@gmail.com.

SUPPORT SEALS & JSEALS: MAKE A DONATION

• SEALS is registered as a 501(c)(3) organization in the USA, and as such is open to receive tax-deductible donations from US taxpayers and corporations. As a not-for-profit organization, SEALS relies upon funding from conference registration fees and additional support from hosting institutions. Donations can facilitate future conferences (e.g., keeping registration fees low, especially helping students to participate) and provide honoraria to reviewers of the JSEALS journal (a free Open-Access SCOPUS-indexed journal). Please send an email to sealsandjseals@gmail.com to ask how you can donate.

THE HISTORY OF JSEALS

• Formally established by decision of the SEALS 17 meeting in September 2007, JSEALS supersedes the former SEALS Conference Proceedings published by Arizona State University.

• JSEALS is published continuously online, with each year's papers from Volume 10 onward are published via the University of Hawaii Press (previously Vol. 1 through 9 by Asia-Pacific Linguistics and archived by ANU Digital Collections). Published articles are indexed by Scopus.