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Endangered Languages Projects

Grants awarded in 2004

Lead ApplicantsProject titleHost InstitutionFunding UK£
Major Documentation Projects
Anvita Abbi Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 56,433 
Tucker Childs Documenting the moribund language Mmani, a Southern Atlantic language of Niger-Congo Portland State University 57,252 
Colette Grinevald The documentation of Rama: a very endangered language of Nicaragua  Institut des Sciences de l'Homme (ISH) 40,000 
Trevor Johnston Corpus of grammar and discourse strategies of deaf native users of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) Macquarie University  73,586 
Shixuan Xu Documentation of the Southern Tujia Language of China Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 34,889 
Gregory Anderson and David Harrison Documentation of Ös: A Turkic Language of Siberia  Swarthmore College 65,572 
Emmon Bach Documentation and analysis of Haisla and Henaaksiala (North Wakashan) of Kitamaat Village, British Columbia SOAS 76,952 
Individual Postgraduate Fellowships
Nicole Kruspe Ceq Wong and Mah Meri: the documentation of two Aslian languages of the Malay Peninsula  University of Melbourne 75,357 
Hans Schmidt Documentation of the Qatareu language, Lakona Bay, Gaua Island, Vanuatu University of Hamburg 75,060 
Lisa Conathan An Arapaho analytical dictionary and concordance University of California at Berkeley 61,415 
Yeshes Vodgsal Acuo Documentation and Comparative Study of two Endangered Languages in Tibet: Wutunhua, Daohua University of Nankai 49,555 
Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer Documentation of the BOGOŊ (Cala) language Mainz University 93,955 
Maud Devos  Shangaji. A Maka or Swahili Language of Mozambique. Grammar, texts and wordlist Leiden University 72,829 
Pilot Project Grants
Elena Kalinina Documentation of endangered Tungusic languages of Khabarovskij Kraj Lomonossov Moscow State University 9,859 
Individual Graduate Studentships
Mbacké Diagne Documenting the Bayot language (a west-African language of the Joola group) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique  19,400 
Julie Barbour Documentation of the Neverver language, Malakula, Vanuatu University of Waikato 16,978 
Field Trip Grants
Louise Baird  Documentation of 3-4 Endangered Non-Austronesian Languages of Alor and Pantar, Eastern Indonesia Leiden University 10,000 
Nilson Gabas Jr.  Documentation and description of Karo, Brazil  Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi 12,430 
Claire Bowern Documentation of Yan-Nhangu, an undescribed language of North-Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Australia Australian National University 8,846 
Total amount awarded:910,368

The figures shown do not reflect any subsequent alterations to grants or any other commitments made by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme.