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Documenting Endangered Documenting Endangered LanguagesLanguages
A Partnership between the National A Partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Endowment for the Humanities and the
National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation
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DEL Initiative
• Partnership launched in 2004 in recognition of the need to document the rapid loss of languages.
• Estimates are that half of the world’s 6,000 to 7,000 languages will go extinct in the next 50-100 years.
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What is lost?What is lost?
• Language Diversity• Cultural Knowledge • Knowledge about Natural Systems• Community Identity
In forming DEL, the two agencies acknowledged that endangered languages represent a vast repository of human knowledge about the natural world and cultural traditions.
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StrategiesStrategies
• Documentation
• Revitalization
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What do linguists do?What do linguists do?
• Fieldwork to collect information• Analysis (morphology, syntax, phonology)• Products: dictionary, grammar, and texts• Standards development
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NEH-NSF PartnershipNEH-NSF Partnership
Through a competitive, peer review process,the agencies provide at least $3 millionannually in DEL awards.
Awards may be:
• Fellowships for individuals of up to 12 months• Grants for institutions of up to 3 years
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Activities Funded by DELActivities Funded by DEL
•Fieldwork to record in digital audio and video format•Preparation of lexicons, grammars, texts, and databases•Digitization and preservation of previously collected materials•Training native speakers in descriptive linguistics•Development of standards and databases
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Ixil Maya (Nejab) Project
Jule Gómez de García - California State University
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DEL 2005-2011DEL 2005-2011
195 grants and 64 fellowships awarded totaling over $30.2 million
Projects cover 194 languages from 44 countries
112 of these languages are spoken in 17 countries that are members of the OAS
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DEL Awards - Latin America
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Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA)Latin America (AILLA)
University of Texas, AustinUniversity of Texas, AustinProject Director: Joel F. SherzerProject Director: Joel F. Sherzer
AILLA is a digital archive of AILLA is a digital archive of recordings and texts in and about recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin the indigenous languages of Latin America. Access to archive America. Access to archive resources is free of charge.resources is free of charge.
http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/welcome.html
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Chatino Documentation
Anthony Woodbury and Chatino speakers
Teaching Chatino
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Nahuatl Documentation
Jonathan Amith (Gettysburg College) recording Nahuatl speech and filming cultural practices.
Anthology of textsDocumentary FilmBotanical Field Guides