Documenting Endangered Languages  (DEL)

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation  06-577

SYNOPSIS

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. Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of the 6000-7000 currently used human languages, this effort aims also to exploit advances in information technology. 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.

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) will participate in the partnership as a research host, a non-funding role.

RELATED PROGRAMS

Linguistics

Cultural Anthropology

Arctic Social Sciences

Human and Social Dynamics

RELATED URLS

NSF Workshop on Documenting Endangered Languages, October 2007

Samples of Successful Documenting Endangered Languages Proposals

Federal Agencies Partner to Document Endangered Languages Press Release

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

The Smithsonian

International Polar Year (IPY)

Documenting Endangered Languages Interview on WAMU Radio - March 7, 2007

THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF

Psychological and Language Sciences

Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program

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