Language Documentation & Conservation is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published exclusively in electronic form by the University of Hawaiʻi Press. LD&C publishes papers on all topics related to language documentation and conservation, including, but not limited to, the goals of language documentation, data management, fieldwork methods, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality, biocultural diversity, archiving matters, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports on endangered or underdocumented languages, reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization efforts, plus reviews of software, hardware, books, and data collections.

Sponsor: National Foreign Language Resource Center

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

LD&C publishes fully open access content, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. Authors retain copyright of their material. We publish one volume per year with no fees either for contributors or for readers. We upload articles four times per year in a publish-on-acceptance model.

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2007 to present

• Recent Articles

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  A series of images for eliciting nominal quantifiers in Akuzipik
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  Expanding Comparative Databases: The Case of Lote
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

  Deferred Vernacular Production in the transmission of local languages: Preliminary evidence from Sãotomense, Angolar, Molise Croatian and beyond
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

  CoLang 2022 in Montana: A Turning Point in Indigenous Representation
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  Orientations to ‘fluency’ in language revitalization contexts: Ideologies and impacts for L2 learners
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

  Grammar as a bridge: Empowering Indigenous learners in a Solomon Islands language school
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

  Sketch grammars of Wauyai Maˈya and Batta: Two undocumented Austronesian languages of Raja Ampat, northwest New Guinea
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

  An overview of Mapuzugun writing system proposals, current usage, and political implications
  Posted on Monday December 01, 2025

• Pricing Guide

• This journal is an open-access and peer reviewed online-only journal. Read online here.

• Author Guidelines

• LD&C publishes original papers on all topics related to language documentation and conservation, including, but not limited to, the goals of language documentation, data management, fieldwork methods, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality, biocultural diversity, archiving matters, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports on endangered or underdocumented languages, reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization efforts, plus software, hardware, and book reviews.

  Find Submission Guidelines here.

• Editorial Board

• Editor

  Racquel-María Sapién, University of Oklahoma, USA

  Technology Section & Collection Review Editor

  Gary Holton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

  Book Review Editor

  Bradley McDonnell, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

  Copy Editor

  Rui Yamawaki, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

  Associate Copy Editors

  Claudia Soria, Michael Rießler

  Web Production Editor

  Cedar Lay, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

  Spanish Copy Editor

  Lilián Guerrero, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  Editorial Board

  Linda Barwick, University of Sydney, Australia

  Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

  Emiliana Cruz, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Unidad Regional Ciudad de México

  Nicholas Evans, Australian National University, Australia

  Bruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

  Spike Gildea, University of Oregon, USA

  Tom Güldemann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

  Birgit Hellwig, University of Cologne, Germany

  Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, University of Cologne, Germany

  Larry Kimura, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, USA

  Keita Kurabe, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

  Hsiu-chuan Liao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

  Luisa Maffi, Terralingua, Canada

  Ulrike Mosel, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

  Claire Moyse-Faurie, LACITO, CNRS, France

  Toshihide Nakayama, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

  Kenneth L. Rehg, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA

  Keren D. Rice, University of Toronto, Canada

  Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas at Austin, USA

• Indexes

• Language Documentation & Conservation is indexed by:

  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

  ERIC

  Open Science Press

  Scopus

  ProQuest–
  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (Online), Core
  Linguistics Collection, 1/1/2015-
  Social Science Premium Collection, 1/1/2015-

  Clarivate Analytics–
  Emerging Sources Citation Index
  Web of Science

  Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.–
  Linguistics Abstracts (Online)

  LD&C is also listed as a green OA journal by Sherpa Romeo.