With the upgrade to a new catalogue system just around the corner, PARADISEC staff are busily fine-tuning metadata within existing collections whilst attending to business as usual and accessioning recordings and documents representing a wide range of languages. Take a glimpse of our latest additions and the regions they originate from below to get a feel for the linguistic diversity that is developing within our archives:
| Collector | Collection Description | Date of recording | Country | Language | University | |
| ALB01 | Andrea Berez | Documentation of Ahtna Athabascan language of Alaska | 2009 – 2010 | Alaska | Ahtena | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| BA1 | Barry Alpher | Recordings of conversations | 1996 – 1997 | Australia | Gugubera and Yir Yoront | University of Melbourne |
| CF1 | Cathy Falk | Recordings of the Tarawangsa-kacapi ensemble from six locations in West Java, Indonesia | 1974, 1977, 1979 | West Java, Indonesia | Sunda | University of Melbourne |
| CR1 | Calvin Roesler | Folktales, origins, customs, songs, daily life and linguistic analysis | 1955 – 1998 | Papua, Indonesia | Asmat, Central | |
| DH1 | Deborah Hill | Recordings of clan history, basket weaving and folk tales | 1989 | Solomon Islands | Longgu | Australian National University |
| DL1 | Don Laycock | Biwat language documentation (Papua New Guinea) | 1958 – 1978 | Papua New Guinea | Biwat | Australian National University |
| GH2 | Gary Holton | This collection documents languages of Alor-Pantar, Indonesia, with a focus on the Western Pantar (Lamma) language | 1996 – 2007 | Indonesia | Lamma | University of Alaska |
| GW1 | Geoffrey White | History, folktales and legends | 1975 – 1976 | Solomon Islands | Cheke Holo | University of Hawaii |
| JH1 | John Harris | Transcriptions and audio recordings from Kiwaumai village, Uramu Island, PNG | 1964 – 1967 | Papua New Guinea | Kiwai, Northeast | Australian National University |
| JN2 | John Newman | A collection of recordings, transcriptions, and other materials | 2001, 2007, 2011 | New Zealand , Papua New Guinea | Tulu-Bohuai | University of Alberta |
| LG1 | Lauren Gawne | Sessions mainly conducted in Nepali and Yolmo | 2009 | Nepal | Helambu Sherpa | University of Melbourne |
| MG1 | Murray Groves | Reel to Reel Magnetic tapes mainly concerning the Motu people of Papua | 1957 – 1973 | Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Samoa | Motu, Tongan, Samoan | Australian National University |
| NT10 | Nick Thieberger | Warnman language and songs | 1988-2011 | Australia | Wanman (Warnman) | University of Melbourne |
| NT5 | Nick Thieberger | Digital recordings made between 2000 and 2008, both audio and video | 2000 – 2008 | Vanuatu | Efate, South | University of Melbourne |
| RB1 | Robert Blust | Recordings of languages from Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea | 1971 | Malaysia | Bintulu, Sa’ban | University of Hawaii |
| RS1 | Ruth Singer | Ruth Singer’s recordings from north-west Arnhem Land, mainly Mawng at Warruwi (Goulburn Island) but also some other languages and locations | 2004 – 2010 | Australia | Gunwinggu (Kunwinjku), Iwaidja, Maung (Mawng), Kunbarlang | University of Melbourne |
| SUY1 | Lauren Gawne | Audio recordings of grammatical elicitation and words lists, audio and video recordings of stories | 2010 – 2012 | Nepal | Kagate, Nepali | University of Melbourne |
| TTK1 | Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka | Two recordings made in English and Pijin | 1992 | Solomon Islands | English, Pijin | University of Hawaii |
| WD1 | Wayne Dye | Bahinemo Language and Culture: including audio texts, photos, videos of cultural activities, transcriptions, glossary of around 3000 words with English and some Tok Pisin glosses, phonology paper, a grammar paper and various other analyses. | 1964 – 1989, 2007, 2008 | Papua New Guinea | Bahinemo |
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