The Pangloss Collection is a digital library whose objective is to store and facilitate access to audio recordings in endangered languages of the world.
Developed by the LACITO centre of CNRS in Paris, the collection provides free online access to documents of connected, spontaneous speech, in otherwise little-documented languages of all continents.
The Pangloss Collection gives access to original recordings simultaneously with transcriptions and translations, as a resource for further research.
[1]: 124 [4] The purpose of the archive was “to conserve, and to make available for research, recorded and transcribed oral traditions and other linguistic materials in (mainly) unwritten languages, giving simultaneous access to sound recordings and text annotation.”[4] The earliest archived corpora in the collection were languages from Nepal, from New Caledonia, from eastern Africa and French Guiana.
[5] The archive has grown steadily since the early 2000s,[6] incorporating corpora from various linguists, whether members of LACITO or not.