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Endangered Languages Projects

Grants awarded in 2005

Lead ApplicantsProject titleHost InstitutionFunding UK£
Major Documentation Projects
Der-Hwa Victoria Rau Digital Archiving Yami Language Documentation  Providence University, Taiwan  40,600 
Individual Postgraduate Fellowships
Stephen Morey A comprehensive comparative grammar of the Turung and Singpho languages of Assam  La Trobe University  73,187 
Anthony Jukes Documentation of Ratahan, an endangered Austronesian language of North Sulawesi  School of Oriental & African Studies  81,379 
Pilot Project Grants
Gabor Szekely Endangered Language Situation of the Upper-Lozva Voguls in Ivdel, North-West Siberia, Russia  University of Pécs  6,000 
Individual Graduate Studentships
Valérie Guérin Discovering Mafea: texts, grammar, and lexicon  University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. (UHM)  12,292 
Peter Budd Documentation and description of Bierebo, a Southern Oceanic language of Vanuatu  School of Oriental & African Studies  27,629 
Joana Jansen Yakima language documentation and grammar  University of Oregon  13,151 
Eladio Mateo-Toledo  Documentation of the Syntax and Specialized Uses of Q'anjob'al (Maya)  The University of Texas at Austin  14,184 
Ubiray Nogueira de Rezende  Sketch grammar, texts and dictionary of Enawene-Nawe (Arawak, Brazil)  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)  14,443 
Henry Bergqvist Temporal Reference in Lakandon Maya  School of Oriental & African Studies  20,990 
Field Trip Grants
Gail Coelho Documentation of Betta Kurumba  School of Oriental & African Studies  9,881 
Regina Pustet Lakota grammar Institute of General and Typological Linguistics  8,955 
Chaithra Puttaswamy Documentation and Description of Malto School of Oriental and African Studies 5,400 
Alejandra Vidal Documenting Pilagá language (Guaycuruan): Bilingual dictionary with grammatical and ethnographic notes Universidad Nacional de Formosa  10,000 
Elena Indjieva Kalmyk/Oirat; Development of teaching materials for Kalmyk national schools; Comparative studies of Kalmyk and Oirat University of Hawaii  6,441 
Serge Sagna The System of Nominal classification in Gújjólay Eegima School of Oriental and African Studies 4,485 
Louis Goldstein A first Kayardild audiovisual text corpus, with prosodic annotations Yale University  6,329 
Rodrigo Romero Mendez Description and Documentation of Ayutla Mixe University at Buffalo  7,311 
Jurgita Saltanaviciute Preservation of Lakota Language: Translation of Songs and Speeches University at Oklahoma  9,694 
Total amount awarded:372,351

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