The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project  The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project

Endangered Languages Projects

Grants awarded in 2006

Lead ApplicantsProject titleHost InstitutionFunding UK£
Major Documentation Projects
Jinfang Li Documentation of Two Gelao Varieties: Zou Lei and A Hou, South West China Central University of Nationalities 88,906 
Jean-Christophe Verstraete Documentation of five Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula, Australia University of Leuven 79,750 
Linda Barwick Classical song traditions of contemporary Western Arnhem Land in their multilingual context University of Sydney 120,670 
Veronica Grondona Wichi: Documentation, Description and Training Eastern Michigan University 44,387 
Individual Postgraduate Fellowships
Katia Chirkova Documentation of four varieties of Baima International Institute for Asian Studies 84,397 
Myfany Turpin Arandic Songs project University of Queensland 79,866 
Conor Quinn Documentation of Under-Represented Genres of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Linguistic Practice Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Linguistics and Philosophy 65,352 
Pilot Project Grants
Moges Yigezu Pilot Project for Koegu, a highly endangered language of the Lower Omo Valley, South Western Ethiopia Addis Ababa University 5,460 
Sophie Salffner Documentation and description of Ukaan, a language of Southern Nigeria SOAS 7,945 
Individual Graduate Studentships
Erich Round Linguistic and Ethnographic documentation of Kayardild Yale University 20,731 
Sarah Cutfield Dalabon Oral Histories Project Monash University 14,982 
Burgel Faehndrich Documentation of a Dialect of Mongghul and a Dialectological Survey of Mongghul University of Hawaii at Manoa 12,975 
Gabriela Caballero Hernandez Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) documenation and description University of California, Berkeley 15,000 
Rosa Vallejos Kokama-Kokamilla: texts, grammar and lexicon University of Oregon 15,187 
Field Trip Grants
Connie Dickinson Cha'palaa Documentation Project Universidad San Francisco de Quito 10,000 
Tyler Peterson Seeing Voices: Documenting the Gitskan Narrative University of British Columbia 10,000 
Stuart McGill Western Acipa documentation and description School of Oriental and African Studies 5,010 
Charles Macdonald Palawan-Tagalog-English Dictionary CNRS 5,280 
Karen Grunow-Harsta A descriptive grammar of two Magar dialects: Tanahu and Syangja Magar University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 8,195 
Ryoko Hattori Linguistic Documentation of Pingilapese Language University of Hawaii at Manoa 8,473 
Jorge Gomez Rendon Documentation and Description of Sia Pedee, Ecuador University of Amsterdam 7,940 
Anne Vilain Documentation of Baba'1, a Bantu language from the Grassfields of Cameroon University Stendhal/Institut de la Communication Parlee, Grenoble, France 7,857 
Gilles Polian Documentation of Central Tseltal: creation of a broad corpus for multiple uses CIESAS-SURESTE 6,080 
Marianne Ignace Northern (Massett) Haida Toponymy and Geographic Knowledge Simon Fraser University 7,700 
Marine Vuillermet Documentation of the Ese Ejja language of the Amazonian region of Bolivia CNRS 8,402 
Gerardo De Caro Talyshi documentation and description SOAS 6,789 
Total amount awarded:747,334

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