ONLINE RESOURCES FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

Funding sources

DoBeS

Volkswagen Foundation

In 2000 the Volkswagen Foundation started the DOBES programme in order to document languages that are potentially in danger of becoming extinct within a few years time. Currently, 30 documentation teams are working, and it is the expectation that there will be calls for concrete documentation projects until 2007.

Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL)

National Science Foundation

This multi-year funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Funding will support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding will be available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for up to twelve months. At least half the available funding will be awarded to projects involving fieldwork.

Endangered Language Fund

Doug Whalen, Yale University

The Endangered Language Fund is devoted to the scientific study of endangered languages, the support of native efforts in maintaining endangered languages, and the dissemination, to both the native communities and the scholarly world, of the fruits of these efforts .

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project

Our Endangered Languages Documentation Programme offers up to UK£1million in grants each year for the documentation of endangered languages.

Foundation for Endangered Languages

Foundation for Endangered Languages

The aims of the Foundation are to raise awareness of endangered languages, to support the use of endangered languages in all contexts, to support the use of endangered languages in all contexts, to support the documentation of endangered languages, to collect together and make available information of use in the preservation of endangered languages. The Foundation awards grants to projects that further these aims, as and when funds permit.

Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen

Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen

A group of German linguists founded the Society for Endangered Languages in November of 1997 together with the members of the work group "Endangered Languages" of the German Society for Linguistics in Cologne. The goal of this non-profit organization is to further the use, preservation, and documentation of endangered languages and dialects.