The SEAlang Library was established in 2005. It provides language reference materials for Southeast Asia; initially focused on the non-roman script languages used throughout the mainland, and now concentrating on the languages of insular SEA.
SEAlang Library resources include bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, monolingual text corpora, aligned bitext corpora, and a variety of tools for manipulating, searching, and displaying complex scripts.
SEAlang is a collaborative effort between CRCL and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). We work closely with the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) program, hosted by CSEAS on behalf of fourteen member institutions, including all US National Resource Centers for SEA Studies, and cooperate with other Title VI-funded efforts in CSEAS, such as the Thai Reader Project.
Primary funding is provided by the U.S. Department of Education Technical Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) program, with matching funds from CRCL. Other TICFIA-funded digital library programs with substantial dictionary reference resources include the Digital South Asia Library and the Tibetan & Himalayan Library. And, other Title VI-funded programs that develop materials for Southeast Asian languages include the Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies learning resource site SEAsite.
In 2011 funding for the US Department of Education's International Programs was cut severely; all TICFIA projects were canceled outright, mid-way through their 2009-2013 grants. Nevertheles, most planned SEAlang Library reference materials will be online, at least in preliminary form, by mid-January, 2013.