- Aboriginal Community Languages Assistance (Grants) Program
- Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Centre
The Language Centre administers the Aboriginal Community Languages Assistance Program. This grants program provides one-off grants of up to $25,000 to Aboriginal community organisations to help them undertake language revitalisation.
- Aboriginal Languages Initiative
- First Peoples' Cultural Foundation
The overall goal of the Aboriginal Languages Initiative (ALI) is to support preservation and promotion of Aboriginal languages for future generations of Aboriginal peoples and other Canadians.
- Administration for Native Americans
- US Department of Health and Human Services
ANA provides project funding to eligible applicants for the purpose of assisting Native Americans to assure the survival and continuing vitality of their languages.
- 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 Archives
- British Library, supported by Arcadia
The Programme's aim is to contribute to the preservation of archival material that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration world-wide. The main means by which the Programme achieves this is through the creation of digital or microfilm copies of endangered materials and the relocation of the originals to a safe local archival home. Grants are awarded to applicants for these purposes on an annual recurring basis.
- 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 .
- EuroBABEL: Better Analyses Based on Endangered Languages
- European Science Foundation
The main purpose of the EUROCORES programme EuroBABEL is to promote empirical research on underdescribed endangered languages, both spoken and signed, that aims at changing and refining our ideas about linguistic structure in general and about language in relation to cognition, social and cultural organization and related issues in a trans-/ multi-disciplinary perspective.
- Firebird Foundation For Anthropological Research Inc.
- George Appell
The unique oral literatures of indigenous peoples are rapidly being lost through the death of the traditional practitioners and through the schooling of the next generation. The Program for Oral Literature of the Firebird Foundation has initiated a project to fund the collection of this body of rapidly disappearing literature. This literature may consist of ritual texts, curative chants, epic poems, musical genres, folk tales, songs, myths, legends, historical accounts, life history narratives, word games, and so on.
- 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.
- National and International Funding opportunities
- Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity
A list of funding opportunities for endangered languages, including non-subject-specific funding sources.
- 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.
- Indigenous Documents in Asia
- Toyota Foundation
Under the Asian Neighbors Program Special Subject, "Preservation, Utilization, and Transmission of Indigenous Documents in Asia", the term "indigenous documents" applies to all handwritten materials chronicling the histories, customs, or worldviews of people in Asia. Under this Special Subject the program provides grant support for projects aimed at preserving, utilizing, and transmitting such documents.
- Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records
- Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
The Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records (MILR) program addresses the steady erosion and loss of Australia’s estimated 250 original Indigenous languages by providing support for the maintenance and revival of these languages.
- Native American Language Grants
- Native Languages of the Americas
Native Languages of the Americas has a small amount of funding available to make grants supporting the survival of Amerindian languages.
- Native Languages Initiative (Minnesota)
- Grotto Foundation
Funds community projects to preserve and restore Native American languages of Minnesota.
- Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research
- American Philosophical Society
Funds community projects to preserve and restore Native American languages of Minnesota.
- Sacred Earth Network Endangered Languages Program
- Sacred Earth Network
Concentrating on indigenous languages that are endangered in North America and Siberia. A key part of the Program is grants dissemination for projects directly working on preservation/rebirth of these languages.
- World Oral Literature Project
- University of Cambridge
A global initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record.
