There are currently about 7,000 languages spoken worldwide, and at least half are projected to disappear in this century...

The Endangered Language Fund
is helping to stem the tide

For Your Information!
Click to learn about the MKARL Fund, a matching grant in honor of Michael Krauss. Donate now!

Dr. Lalnunthnagi Chhangte with Ralte speaker; Language Legacies grant 2010

Updates:​

• The 2021 NVE call for proposals has closed. Look for our next ELF newsletter to learn about the awardees (subscribe to our newsletter here!)
• ​The 2022 Language Legacies call for proposals will open on January 14, 2022. Check this page or the Language Legacies page for updates!
• ​The UN International Year of Indigenous Languages has now been expanded to the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (see our links)

Our Grants

N|uu language reader; Language Legacies grant; Sheena Shah 2014

Language Legacies Grants
(The next Request for Proposals is now open, and closes on March 18, 2022)

Virginia Beavert; NVE grants 2010, 2013, 2016 & 2019; native speaker of Yakama

Native Voices Endowment Grants
(The Request for 2021 Proposals has closed)​

How Can You Help?

Group photo from a trip to Phainuam during 2010 project on the Ralte language in India

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Delegates from the three Mishmi language groups

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Iquito Language Documentation Project nightly seminar. © Cabeceras Aid Project

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Resources

Group working with Dr. Blench; 2015 grant to Dr. Mite Lingi for work on Idu Mishmi language

​Grant Writing Manual

Written by Drs. Ofelia Zepeda & Susan Penfield,
a helpful guide for preparing grant proposals

Noam Chomsky and Doug Whalen (Founder, ELF)

Noam Chomsky Lecture

​On November 15, 2006, Board member Noam Chomsky gave a lecture in New Haven, CT to benefit the Endangered Language Fund. You can listen to it here.

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Our deepest gratitude goes to Jonathan Fox and the Myaamia Center for helping us create this website. Neewe!
Thanks also to Hannah King for her work developing it.

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Cover photo by Dr. Mite Lingi, from 2015 Language Legacies project, used with permission. Photo depicts yu acoka (Idu Mishmi for 'bamboo rice beer containers'), hanging on a post at a house where the Ren festival is taking place.