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.
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After a delay of two years, The Institute Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) 2022 ran in Missoula, Montana. The Endangered Language Fund was able to support four participants via scholarships in both the NVE and Language Legacies categories. We asked the participants to share some of their experiences and memories with us, and here is what two participants said!
From Gladys Camacho Rios: “I am an L1 speaker of South Bolivian Quechua and a PhD student in Linguistics. To me, my learning experiences at CoLang will highly benefit my country through my language activism work. Here at CoLang I have not only learned great content from my different courses, but also, I have learned a lot from the infrastructure of the courses that will allow me to better serve the community in Bolivia.” Here are some photos of Gladys’ time in Missoula. |
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From Mike Geboe (CoLang 2022): “I am glad to write about my time with CoLang 2022. I have an appreciation for the diverse nature of the CoLang Participants from the far reaches of Turtle Island. I want to thank the Endangered Language Fund for the support I have received for the CoLang Workshops. I was able to speak with many other indigenous language activists who have shared their work on tribal language revitalization, advocacy, and methodologies. I enjoyed every speaker and presenter that shared on linguistics and language development. I got the most out of the hands-on workshops. I shared a 5-minute presentation at "sharing night" and was a bit nervous when I realized how many showed up to hear all the presentations. It went well and many people gave great feedback on it. I look forward to developing the local tribal language of Ojibwe and Neyio (Chippewa and Cree) in the future. I was impressed with the CoLang 2022 planning team. The food was great, and the atmosphere was awesome on the University of Montana campus. As a graduate from 1996 (BA in Psychology) and 1998 (MA in School Psychology), I enjoyed being on campus and in the new Payne Family Native American Center Building Classrooms.”
CoLang 2018
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
