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Endangered Languages Projects

Grants awarded in 2008

Lead ApplicantsProject titleHost InstitutionFunding UK£
Major Documentation Projects
Nariyo Kono Documenting conversation and the pragmatics of the Kiksht Portland State University 75,754 
Robert Williams P.I., Angelika Jakobi, Jade Comfort, Abdelbagi Daida Documenting and Analysing Uncunwee - An Endangered Sudanese Language American University in Cairo 82,679 
Andrew Cowell A Conversational Database of the Arapaho Language in Video Format The University of Colorado 27,071 
Eva Schultz-Berndt The painter's eye, the painter's voice: Language, art and landscape in the Gija world University of Manchester, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures 125,290 
Individual Postgraduate Fellowships
Chenglong Huang Documentation of the Namuyi Language Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 55,800 
Rosemary Beam de Azcona Linguistic and cultural documentation of the Miahuatec Zapotec of San Bartolome Loxicha University of California 69,299 
Felicity Meakins The documentation of Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language University of Manchester 94,667 
Julien Meyer Documentation of Gaviao and Surui Languages in whistled and instrumental speech Fundacao Instituto para o Desenvolvimento da Amazonia 68,519 
Gabriela Caballero  A reference grammar of Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) The Research Foundation, Stony Brook University 43,739 
Adjaratou Sall Documentation of Bedik Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) Dakar University 44,025 
Serge Sagna The Documentation of Gujjolaay Eegimaa an Atlantic-BAK Joola Language University of Manchester, UK 79,398 
Pilot Project Grants
Sibaji Panda Investigation of an endangered village sign language in India: a pilot study University of Central Lancashire 6,108 
Simon Musgrave Knowledge of endangered languages in the Sudanese Community, Melbourne Australia Monash University 5,986 
Helen Jahani Documentation of the language and lifestyle of the Galesh, province of Golestan, Iran Uppsala University 6,000 
Carmen Jany Documentation of Chuxnaban Mixe: Texts, Dictionary and Grammar California State University, San Bernardino 4,509 
Eli Timan Preservation of the spoken language of Iraqi Jews School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 8,225 
Sabah Aldihisi Documenting the Mandaean's Rituals School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 8,910 
Anastasia Riehl Initial Documentation of Na'ahai, a language of Malakula, Vanuatu University of South Pacific 5,642 
Jonathan D Amith Corpus and Lexicon development: Endangered genres of discourse in Tu'un isavi (Mixtec) of Yoloxochitl, Guerrero Gettysburg College 5,984 
Individual Graduate Studentships
Joshua Wilbur The Pite Saami Documentation Project Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin 43,148 
Ayla Applebaum Documentation and Analysis of Kabardian as Spoken in Turkey University of California, Santa Barbara 39,392 
Tam Nguyen Documenting Bih, an Austronesian language of Vietnam  University of Oregon 37,974 
Field Trip Grants
Felix Ameka Summer School on Documentary Linguistics in West Africa Leiden University 30,324 
Charles Macdonald Palawan-Tagalog-English Dictionary Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 6,020 
Saskia Van Putten A Description and Documentation of Avatime Leiden University 8,388 
Gary Holton Enriching the media corpus for Western Pantar (Lamma), a Papuan outlier language of Eastern Indonesia University of Alaska Fairbanks 10,000 
Megan Biesele Digital Documentation of Jul'hoan Language and Culture: Field research for Audio, Video and Text Archives University of Texas at Austin 9,600 
Marie Van Egmond Investigation and documentation of the morpho-syntax of Anindilyakwa University of Sydney 8,730 
Jason Lobel Documentation of Inati, an Endangered Negrito Language of the Central Philippines University of Hawai'i 9,996 
Jonathan Owens Documentation of Glavda in rural and urban contexts University of Bayreuth 9,060 
Wilson Silva Documentation of Desano - Eastern Tukanoan University of Utah 3,715 
Dorte Borchers Surel and Sunwar narratives (Nepal). Four books with CDs Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin 7,532 
Ibrahima Ouattara The Tiefo Language: Grammar sketch, lexicon and collection of texts. Institut des Sciences de la Societe (INSS) 5,955 
Glauber Romling Da Silva Documentation of the Paresi-Haliti Language (Arawak) Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) 10,000 
Natalia Caceres Documentation of the Ye'kwana language in the Caura Basin CNRS, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2 9,922 
Conrad Feather Documentation of mythology and shamanic songs of the Nahua, Panoan speaking of Peruvian Amazon University of St. Andrews 10,996 
Amy Campbell Expanding the Documentation and Description of Hupa (Athabaskan) The Regents of the University of California 9,990 
Gerardo De Caro Talyshi Documentation Project (Completion) SOAS 1,436 
Kimary Shahin Lower St'at'imcets Documentation Simon Fraser University 10,000 
Total amount awarded:1,099,783

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