The Institute on Collaborative Language Research
CoLang is an opportunity for community language activists, linguists, and students of linguistics to receive training in skills needed to document, maintain, and/or revitalize minority languages. CoLang started in 2008 (as InField - the Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation), and has been held every other year since.
CoLang 2020 will be hosted by the University of Montana in collaboration with the Chief Dull Knife College. See website for details.
ELF was a sponsor of the 2018 CoLang, at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Through our NVE program, we provided five fellowships to allow eligible tribal members to attend. Three of them are shown below.
CoLang 2018: Mosiah Bluecloud, Doug Whalen (Founder, ELF), Aaron Broadwell (ELF Board member),
Kate Bridwell-Briner, Robert Lewis, and Kristine Hildebrandt (ELF Vice-President)
Kate Bridwell-Briner, Robert Lewis, and Kristine Hildebrandt (ELF Vice-President)
CoLang 2016
ELF was again a sponsor of CoLang 2016, held in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the campus of the University of Alaska. CoLang 2016 featured short courses on topics such as audio/video recording, data management, archiving, ethnobiology, language and well-being, language teaching, survey methods, and curriculum development, and then three weeks of intensive field methods practica.
CoLang 2016 from Ben Levine on Vimeo.
ELF was a proud sponsor of CoLang 2014, which was held at the University of Texas at Arlington.
CoLang 2014 Group Photo
