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Endangered Language Fund
ELF is a small program which depends on donations for its grant scheme.
Grants of around USD $2,000 to $4,000 are available for language maintenance and linguistic field work. The work most likely to be funded is that which serves both the native community and the field of linguistics. The language involved must be in danger of disappearing within a generation or two.
Deadlines: applications are usually due in April, with decisions announced in May.
Examples of funded projects include:
- Linda Lanz (Rice University) ''Inupiaq Revitalization and Documentation: Digital Resources for an Indigenous Community''. Inupiaq is a moribund Inuit Eskimo-Aleut language spoken by an estimated 3,000 people in northern Alaska. This project aimed to fill large gaps in the existing Inupiaq documentation, particularly morphophonology and morphosyntax. The researcher and community members also planned to produce materials and linguistic documentation of the Malimiut dialect.
- Wilson de Lima Silva (University of Utah) ''Practical Language Material for Desano''. This project aimed to produce a booklet of traditional stories in Desano of the Upper Rio Negro region of Brazil. These stories will be used in the educational and revitalization programs being developed by the community members and FOIRN (Federacao das Organizacoes Indigenas do Rio Negro).