The Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society is the society's peer-reviewed open-access academic journal covering research on the languages of mainland and insular Southeast Asia, including Sino-Tibetan, Austroasiatic, Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien, and Austronesian languages.

[2] The journal was formally established at the SEALS 17 meeting in September 2007 at the University of Maryland.

It supersedes the SEALS Conference Proceedings,[3] which were published by Arizona State University.

Papers and presentations are archived online, with the exception of some earlier conferences.

The first meeting, held in 1991 at Wayne State University in Michigan, was attended by Paul K. Benedict, William J. Gedney, Gérard Diffloth, James A. Matisoff, Laurent Sagart, Jerry Edmondson, Graham Thurgood, among others.