19 August 2021
Brill has signed an agreement with the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) to publish a new open access series. The series will be entitled Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects, and will publish up to three titles annually. It will be produced in close cooperation with scholars at the Linguistics Department of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
"The single most important imperative of contemporary linguistics is to document, describe, and analyze endangered languages and other lesser-known languages and dialects. The new series will make available cutting-edge research on such languages that would be freely accessible to readers around the world, including members of the relevant speech communities", says Prof. Yukinori Takubo, Director-General of NINJAL.
"Brill is thrilled to partner with NINJAL, Japan’s premier institute of linguistics, to publish this landmark series", adds Dr. Uri Tadmor, Publishing Director at Brill. "Our cooperation with scholars at the Linguistics Department of University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, which spearheads research on endangered languages in the Asia-Pacific region, will enhance the series and ensure its success".